Word: avoid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...estimated 1,000,000 people have swarmed into Rio looking for a better life than they had in the provinces. Many of them ended up in shantytowns. Today the favelados number an estimated 500,000, about three-fourths of them Negroes. Rio's cops, tough as they are, avoid favelas even by daylight. "As a sanctuary for criminals," said the newspaper O Globo, "the favelas are as inviolate as the ancient temples. The law . . . stops at the base of the hill, as if it were the frontier of a foreign country." Cariocas fear favela-bred epidemics of disease...
Furthermore, the layman's insistence on singing and hearing the familiar in church made it difficult for choirmasters to avoid "dull repetitions of old, shoddy, mediocre hymns...
Despite the frequent and occasionally justified complaints about over-concentration, and despite the few and mostly unjustified complaints about over-diversification, this balance has many advantages. Avoiding lopsidedness is of course imperative, since one of the greatest benefits a House can offer is the admixture of different backgrounds, interests, and academic pursuits. But it is quite as important to avoid a slide-rule approach. Rigorous application of the proportional representation theory would altogether deprive a House of what best might be called its social common denominator, which must be retained in some measure if Houses are to be fashioned into...
...problem remains: how is one to avoid the abuses of the old law? Perhaps the surest solution is a tighter accrediting policy. Every school, college or university that received money from the government under the old law had to be accredited, and the fact that many of them were shady is more an indictment of the administration than of the payments method. But unfortunately, Representative Teague is obsessed by this problem, so much so that he is willing to risk distorting the program altogether. Unfortunately, it seems that many members of the House Veterans Committee share this feeling and that...
Although the ballots gave Miss Barrow margins ranging from 14 to 20 points over Dele Gilmore '53, no two of the four counts reached the same totals. Ballots were double-checked in order to avoid any error...