Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likelihood of a yes from all six nations, including France, has suddenly bestirred the British, who have long kept one tentative foot in and one determined foot out of the Continent. To avoid Britain's being frozen out completely, Harold Macmillan, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer last fall, put forth a counterscheme, broader but less radical than the Common Market. He proposed the creation of a Free Trade Area in Europe, to take in not just the Common Market Six, but twelve other European nations besides. The Six, who have all had previous bitter experience with British...
...point vividly clear: the domestic problem that bothers the President most is inflation, and in the fight against it he appealed beyond Capitol Hill to the nation. "Government's efforts," he said, "must be paralleled by the attitudes and actions of individual citizens." Business leaders must "studiously avoid those price rises that are possible only because of vital or unusual needs of the whole nation," and labor's wage increases "must be reasonably related to improvements in productivity...
...majority, but the danger was that the number of cryptodemocrats hiding beneath the Communist Party label threatened to produce non-Communist combinations in the new Parliament. A non-Communist Polish government now, to judge from Hungary's experience, would be an open invitation for Soviet armed intervention. To avoid this possibility, Gomulka last week ordered the electoral commission to remove from the approved list any candidates who "are weak of character and have shown lack of responsibility." He had another worry: What if thousands of voters boycotted the elections...
...Faber, Ltd., London publishing firm of which he is a director; he for the second time (his first wife, whom he married in 1915, died in 1947), she for the first; in an Anglican ceremony in London's St. Barnabas Church (Kensington) held at 6:15 a.m. to avoid Fleet Street newsbeagles. Obscurantist Eliot on the gulf between May and December in Lines for an Old Man (Collected Poems...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...