Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincolnian dictum of doing for people the things they can't do well themselves, but to avoid interference where people can do things for themselves." The Federal Government should support social security and unemployment insurance, foster health research, overcome emergency schoolroom shortages, keep the dollar sound. Beyond these duties is a barrier: "The partnership policy of which we speak is to give the maximum responsibility into the hands of local and state governments to run their own affairs...
...three traditional scourges-war and pestilence-only to be done to death by the third scourge, famine? Surely we are not going to be so stupid as that!" With no more war and everybody living longer, however, Toynbee foresaw no way for the human race to avoid wholesale starvation unless it faces "the problem of limiting the birth rate." This could be done, said he, by persuading or compelling parents to limit the size of their broods. It would be necessary, of course, added Toynbee, to persuade some people to change "some of the tenets of their ancestral religion...
...credit for building one of the most scenic and safest superroads in the U.S. (2.8 deaths per hundred million vehicle miles). But if Tallamy had it to do all over again, the 427-mile Thruway from New York City to Buffalo would be even better; he says he would avoid all scenically dull stretches, make roadways at least 80 ft. apart, build them at different levels for greater safety and so that oncoming traffic would not spoil the view. Last week Highway Man Tallamy got his chance to put these ideas in effect all over the U.S. President Eisenhower chose...
...Republican farm platform, unfortunately, stops once the inefficient farmers have been forced off the market. The soil bank and flexible supports will have cut production and the number of producers. But there is no concrete proposal on what to do with the unemployed farmer. To avoid a depression, as well as for humanitarian impulses, these men must be re-employed...
...further attempt to avoid controversy, Harriman said that the contents of the message would have to be revealed by Malott, not himself...