Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie struck, and its residents imitate and envy the stars of the screen- though members of "downtown" society and the rich of Pasadena enjoy bristling at them and Los Angeles society pages go out of their way to avoid printing a motion-picture person's name. It is a city full of people from somewhere else and it still has little sense of tradition or of unity...
...misunderstandings. Some of his converts have tried to help him out. Nervous Archivist Piet van Wijk, 41, made a glowing speech about the beauty of Islamic prayer. Suave, mustached Zeno de Lyon explained that Islam always taught the middle road. "With their system," said Zeno, "one can avoid both communism and capitalism...
...Ellen, nearly 8, insisted on taking along the family pets (Hansel, a canary, Judy, a boxer, and Punchy, a beagle). But Britain's six-month rabies quarantine presented a problem. Diplomat McCloy decided to send the wife and kids and Hansel on to Britain by boat. To avoid the British quarantine, he would fly nonstop from the U.S. to Germany himself, personally escorting Punchy and Judy direct to their new home...
...years as a priest, and some long, painful self-questioning about problems of dogma, he became a Protestant, later married. Now teaching theology and biblical archeology at Princeton Theological Seminary, Presbyterian Barrois has written occasionally about his change of faith, but usually in a key apparently set to avoid controversy with Catholics...
...professors have always to conform and avoid unpopular views whether in class or out what kind of men will they be? And where will our young men and women go to hear and weigh new ideas, to consider both sides and acquire balance and integrity...