Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same afternoon, the Queen's husband Philip went to London Airport to meet his aunt, the Queen of Sweden, and her royal husband Gustaf Adolf. Exiled Prince Paul of Yugoslavia came, and was whisked off by his sister-in-law the Duchess of Kent-just in time to avoid meeting Yugoslavia's Communist President Ribar. Francisco Franco's Foreign Minister got in from Lisbon just before the Pretender to the Spanish throne. The King and Queen of Denmark steamed into Harwich harbor under an escort of British destroyers...
...abolish spring football practice because of the peculiar pressures on football and their (the presidents) desire to avoid intensity of athletic specialization in a single sport. In taking this action, the Committee recognizes that the same evils may exist' in other major sports and they are proceeding with a study of this matter...
...furthermore that they had been repeatedly trespassing on Harvard property. Up to this point the kids, terrified by their accusers, had not ventured to reveal their names to the policemen gathered around them. The one of us admitted to the room inquired whether the boys would be allowed to avoid going to Court if they were to give the police their names. After quite some time, during which the police continued to press their threats, the boys were calmed sufficiently by our representative to give out their names. As a result of this action, these two boys did not incur...
...objections to this. First, the people whose names crop up through the narrative of Philbrick's articles are discredited irrespective of what they have done or are doing today. In effect, the Philbrick series accuses them of sedition despite the efforts of both author and newspaper editors to avoid such a consequence. Because those so accused cannot claim for their statements the prominent position held by the "I Led Three Lives" series, they have little chance to deny the implications of Philbrick's articles. In fact, unless they are officially accused and brought to trial--most of them will...
However we feel it equally indisputable that Philbrick is abusing this right. Because his articles, as well as his career, deal with ferreting out subversives, he cannot avoid discrediting entirely innocent individuals. He has in effect tried these individuals before the American public in a trial where the accused have no chance to defend themselves...