Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prudent person who has had, or wishes to avoid, coronary heart disease should eat a high-fat diet of the type consumed by most Americans." So said Manhattan's famed Nutritionist Norman Jolliffe before New York's Orange County Heart Association this week. "This applies to all races and occupations, to the physically active and to the sedentary ... to the chain-smoking, tense, ambitious executive and to ... the satisfied, relaxed barkeeper...
...Protestants should avoid "vicarious Pope baiting" at their Reformation festivals, said Lutheran Scholar Dr. Jaroslav J. Pelikan Jr., instead make the festivals an "opportunity for serious self-examination of their own reasons for existence." Anti-Roman Catholic sentiments often are voiced by Protestants "whose Protestantism Luther or Calvin would have a hard time recognizing...
...taste and sacrilege is to be drawn. When God speaks to Moses from the burning bush, out booms a big, creamy bass voice that sounds like nothing so much as a TV announcer making a pitch for a local funeral home. At such moments it is impossible to avoid the impression that the moviemaker, no doubt without intending to, has taken the name of the Lord in vain...
...Crimson rugby team will need either a big improvement or even more luck to avoid losing to the Tigers in Princeton at 10 a.m. today...
...information, planning, and drive. The President's trust in simple trust resulted in none of the constructive planning which might have eased integration. Disbelief in the value of planning has caused the dismemberment of federal power development and flood control. Because he seems to have no aim except to avoid--to avoid socialism, to avoid war, to avoid trouble with the team--he has lacked push. Crucial aid to schools fell through largely because the President trusted his team and did not drive it. The testing of hydrogen bombs has continued because Eisenhower has been stopped by the untenable technical...