Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning Stassen and other top Republicans gathered at Washington's National Airport to welcome the President back from Panama. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield and White House Aide Jerry Persons walked out of their way to avoid him. Massachusetts' Senator Lev Saltonstall bumped into Stassen, reacted as though he had come nose to nose with a spoiled cod. Thirty feet away, Dick Nixon seemed oblivious to Stassen's presence. Only at the very end of the airport interlude did Stassen walk over to Nixon and say, "Good morning." The two shook hands briefly, while news photographers clicked...
...play comes alive with terrifying force from Frank's use of most of the old tricks of staging--devils appearing in bombs of smoke, weirdly grotesque Things, lavish costumes, smoldering fires, phosphorescent vials, and dramatic lighting effects. To avoid the inevitable lags, the director has chosen to set the pitch high and to raise it by alternating the nerve-wracking tragedy of Faust and Margaret with Mephistopheles' comic moments and violent crowd scenes. Unbelievably, he succeeds...
There was indeed, and little else. At week's end both sides got together in an attempt to avoid an all-night session. The Southern generals, led by Virginia's Howard Smith, met with Joe Martin & Co., agreed to a limitation on debate. Both sides agreed that the bill would pass the House. But in return for ending their stalling tactics, the Southerners got Martin's promise to postpone a roll-call vote until early this week-just to make dead certain that the Senate would not have time to get to the bill...
...handsome, modern El Panamá hotel, where all the Presidents except Ike and Venezuela's Marcos Pérez Jiménez were billeted,† the informality of a college reunion flourished. To avoid the possibility of hurt feelings, suites identical in size and furnishings were set aside for each chief of state, put under guard and furnished with on-the-house bottles of each President's favorite drink (Spanish "Fundador" brandy for Cuba's Fulgencio Batista, Scotch for Chile's Carlos Ibáñez, French cognac for Mexico's Adolfo Ruiz Cortines...
...avoid these abdications in St. Louis, Cowdry sparked an all-out drive to keep the aged socially active. With a mayor's committee and other groups in support, there are recreation centers, hobby shows, "golden-age clubs," summer camps, and light industries which rely on the willingness of the aged to do painstaking, detailed work...