Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intellectually, he strikes more deeply at the Communist mystique. In his Nowa Kultura series, Kolakowski casts himself in the role of a Communist Everyman. First, he asks why so many party intellectuals have withdrawn from activity and buried themselves in non-political work and a general effort to avoid responsibility. The answer, he says, is that the party is driving its supporters into passivity by denying them the right of dissent...
False Promises. To avoid arrest, Talamas fled to the U.S. embassy. But a few hours later, on the advice of U.S. embassy officials who twice received Haitian government assurances that he would not be mistreated, he surrendered to the police. Next morning, Colonel Louis Roumain, the junta's foreign affairs chief, informed the inquiring embassy that during the night. Talamas assaulted an officer and in the "scuffle" suffered a "heart attack" and died. Accompanied by U.S. officials, three U.S. doctors examined the body, found it a mass of ugly bruises and welts, and the State Department issued the official...
...routines of last year's variety show. Now there was only the occasional clatter of the typewriter-onscreen and off-and on TV even this was restrained enough to be realistic. Though File claims to be based on his "private files," Winchell admits there are fictitious strokes "to avoid any trouble legally." Did he always beat the cops to the scene when prowling around Manhattan? "Normally the cops were there when I arrived," says he, then adding, like the more familiar Winchell: "Once or twice I got there too early...
...Professor Sumner H. Slichter. The U.S. has had a rising price and wage level almost from its infancy, he argues, simply because an expanding economy steadily bid up the prices of labor and materials. Both sides agree that in a perfectly run economic world it might be possible to avoid inflation if wage rates, labor productivity and profits all rose together in direct proportion to output. But even the classic economists foresee no such perfect world. Thus, if the U.S. is to continue to expand, the prices of labor and materials are bound to rise...
...Barton Leach, professor of Law, and former director of the Defense Studies Program stated that "The United States has definitely been in the missile race" but has denied this in order to save face. "The United States cannot afford now to go all out," he said, "but must avoid appearing to be in the race and proceed at a normal rate...