Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harm's Way. In Fayetteville, N.C., Elmer Haywood rushed into the city jail, locked himself in a cell, explained that he wanted to avoid being arrested for drunkenness...
Nevertheless he went to Jerusalem for one more inspection tour before leaving for Paris. When his aide, Swedish General Aage Lundström, suggested that he take a detour to avoid snipers, Bernadotte said: "I must take the same risks as my observers." Near Jerusalem's Hebrew University, his car was hit by an irregular's bullet. Said he: "I do not like irregulars, and I do not like to be shot...
...fights for Communism must be able to fight and not to fight, to say the truth and not to say the truth, to render and to deny service, to keep a promise and to break a promise, to go into danger and to avoid danger, to be known and to be unknown. Who fights for Communism has of all the virtues only one: that he fights for Communism...
...Gerhart Eisler is in the U.S. After Ruth testified against him, he was convicted of perjury and contempt of Congress and faces at least two years' imprisonment. But he is now out on bail, pending appeals. Last March, Hanns hurriedly left the U.S. for Vienna, to avoid deportation...
...Architecture: "There won't be room in most small living rooms for both fireplaces and television sets." Because TV sets are best viewed headon, "this mechanical fact may elongate the room, to avoid waste space on either side of the optimum viewing arc. Windows must be disposed to preclude the advent of any glare . . . Furniture groupings will be theater-style . . ." As screens grow larger, light in the room will be reduced. This, naturally, will require the use of luminous knives, forks and china...