Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hygiene Department has a fine big building near the trolley tracks on Mt. Auburn Street for the care and feeding of mild illnesses. Students who have managed to avoid stretch at Stillman don't know what they're missing, those who have been there find the experience unforgettable...
With just enough changes to avoid libel suits, "Citizen Kane" is the story of William Randolph Hearst. As a skeleton for his plot, Welles uses the interviews of a reporter for a Luce-like organization, who is trying to find out the meaning of the great man's last word. Thinking that this word, "rosebud," might be the key to the whole life of Charles Foster Kane, the reporter speaks to Kane's second wife, his business manager, and his best friend. Thus the story unfolds in snatches and flashbacks, often going over the same scenes twice, but from different...
Herself celebrated for claw-sharp quotes, Dorothy surprised the cast with her gentleness. With Evans, she fled the theater between acts to avoid stares by the curious, acknowledged compliments with a mild "Bless you." Said one actress: "She's sweet. She's even shy. She's a love...
...network board has discovered a commercial station in Michigan that is using the same call letters--WHRV, and it wants to avoid the confusion that might result with two stations using the same letters...
...everything you can to avoid the amusements and noise and the business of men. Keep as far away as you can from the places where they gather to cheat and insult one another, to exploit one another, or to mock one another with their false gestures of friendship. Do not read their newspapers if you can help it. Be glad if you can keep beyond reach of their radios...