Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South West Africa, where the three tribes existed, and left it to state their case before the United Nations. He is not a famous man, yet almost any government minister in Britain will receive him, and the State Department has listened to his pleas. He has learned to avoid the company of Communists...
...idea of Perspectives was presented to the foundation by James Laughlin, 37, great-grandson of the co-founder of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., and founder and angel of the avant-garde book publishing house, New Directions. Laughlin will be publisher and straw boss of Perspectives, but "to avoid any taint of cultism," each issue will have a different editor. Such critics and writers as Lionel Trilling, R. P. Blackmur, Malcolm Cowley, Jacques Barzun, Harry Levin and Mortimer Adler have already agreed to sit in. The foundation is setting aside $500,000 for Perspectives for the first three years, will print...
...time or another about robbing a bank or shooting his relatives. Take one of those chaps whose honesty everybody takes for granted. Supposing he was all along planning a huge robbery? What would he do? What would I do myself?" But a touch of sanity usually pays off: "We avoid those comedies where everybody is mad. We try to keep our feet very much on the ground-or at least...
...main mistake which the authors strived to avoid in their study was that of a one-sided approach. They were eager to encompass all conceivable approaches to the cause of crime. Judging by the outline of their procedure they succeeded...
...illogical blast that ran as your editorial on the tidelands oil dispute Monday morning completely amazed me in view of the insight and clear thinking which usually typifies your editorial column. You charged robbery, which is merely a device to avoid your opponents' arguments; you said that the federal government owned the land, which is not so; you claimed that the federal government could use the money, which is hardly conclusive. In general, you blandly ignored the several sound arguments which could lead to an opinion opposite to yours...