Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area for complete evacuation covers metropolitan Boston. The next area, in which people will be neither evacuated nor received from the city, forms a band ten miles wide around the first. Bostonians can go anywhere outside these two places as long as they avoid Worcester. The third area that will be evacuated in case of attack surrounds Springfield...
...Publication Board advised the editors to avoid "facetiousness" in editorials, to allott less space to the controversy and to use good judgment on controversial issues. The editors did not find these restrictions odious and the Regents now reserved comment...
...machines get more complicated, quick-acting and violent, they are more prone to self-destruction if something goes wrong. Some nuclear reactors, for instance, can turn into radioactive junk in a fraction of a second. To avoid such misadventures, most modern mechanical and electronic systems are equipped with built-in monitors that watch their operation and shut them down promptly at the first sign of trouble. But if a vacuum tube or relay in the monitor fails, the main machine is like a building whose night watchman has dropped dead. Trouble can start and get out of hand with...
...possible to win a fat bundle of 5,000,000 lire ($8,000); in Britain a Pakistani college girl got ?1,024 ($2,867) for her knowledge of Chaucer. Mexican viewers of The 64,000 Peso ($5,120) Question were grumbling that the sponsor was asking impossible questions to avoid paying the jackpot, but finally a textile engineer named Jaime Olvera broke the bank by identifying two of Cortez' scouts in his war with the Aztecs. Said a spokesman for the sponsor* (a shirt company): "This will prove our good faith...
...Lipmann Kessel calls it "espresso wrist," explains that he has found it in operators of Italian coffee machines, who have to make several strong turning movements of the wrist for each demitasse of black brew. They get inflammation and tightening of the tendon sheaths. The cure is hydrocortizone. To avoid relapses, the coffeemaker must learn to hold his wrist straight and stiff like a barmaid...