Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Courtney Whitney, shot out a fast correction from the Waldorf-Astoria. Said he: MacArthur had made it clear, even when urging an expanded attack on the Chinese, that "we should first give the enemy the. opportunity to sit down at a conference table in an honest effort to avoid further bloodshed . . ." The genera! "has consistently refrained" from even discussing the cease-fire negotiations, said Whitney...
...over and we are ready to be friends again, pledged to defend each other." German leaders are not going to rearm a "second-class people," and Germans are not going to fight as "second-class soldiers." The French give the impression that they still want to avoid both a German army and German equality. Britain, while rigorously rearming at home, has gone slow on Germany, apparently in deference to its anti-U.S. left-wing Socialist sentiment. U.S. officials have been waiting for everybody else to make up their minds...
...meetings are rigorously nonsectarian. To avoid any hint of denominationalism, preaching ministers are introduced simply as "Brother." Says Co-Founder Hall: "Our purpose is not to glorify any particular individual, or any denomination, but to glorify God and Jesus Christ...
Adventures in Science (Sat. 3:15 p.m., CBS). "Psychology at Work: How to avoid major blunders in picking a wife, a secretary or the person...
...case: besides their monthly salary of 41,000 lire ($50), the guards get free quarters, uniforms, food, cigarettes and beer. That makes them better off financially than the average Italian civil servant. Also, unlike the Papal Gendarmes, who maintain order inside Vatican City, they have no police duties.* To avoid discontent, however, the Vatican released the 16 complaining recruits from the terms of their enlistment contracts. It is also giving thought to increasing the allowances of the guards who remain...