Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good men of either party. We are presenting to the electorate a slate of candidates for the City Council which include nine qualified gentlemen representing every geographical area and every prominent religious and ethnic group. We have candidates of both political parties and are trying our best to avoid favoring either Democrats or Republicans. In the narrow partisanship of the Republican City Committee warmly applauded by Mr. Potter we see one of the greatest dangers to the future success of our young organization.... James F. Ryan...
...peak. The height was not defended by Reds, but if the marines had made the grueling two-day climb on foot, toting their gear, they would have been too bushed to fight off possible counterattacks. Six big Sikorsky HR51 helicopters, hugging the valleys to avoid enemy fire, reached the peak and, one after another, hovered 8 ft. above its top. The first marines scrambled down knotted ropes and quickly cleared landing spaces 25 ft. square. Fifteen more 'copters then disgorged the rest of the company. In all, about 220 men and eight tons of gear were moved. Gloated Major...
...writer shows great maturity of style in such technical matters as transition and selection of detail. However, he has taken such pains to avoid breaking the mood that there is no change of pace whatever. Chace might have given the story more motion by a dynamic use of dialogue, instead of burying the spoken conversation in description and stream of consciousness. The phrasing is near-perfect. There is hardly a bad sentence in the piece, except, perhaps, the first one ("In the spring of that year time hung over the city in a grey fog"), which is pretentious enough...
Maryalice McArdle, president of Student Government, urged 'Cliffedwellers to avoid even minor infractions of the school's honor system...
...cowboy actor and onetime amateur boxer. The first look had been disappointing. "Last year, Tom and I have a date." Barbara explained a few weeks ago. "and he's playing it real nothing, you know? I think to myself: What have we here, dear? From then on, I avoid...