Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gore pushed ahead with his plans while Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had hoped to avoid an all-out gas-lobbying inquiry, was in Texas, resting up at his ranch on the banks of the Pedernales River.* Gore cleared his project with on-the-spot Democratic brass, e.g., Acting Majority Leader Earle Clements and Georgia's Senator Walter George, who had presided over the Case hearings. Then, without waiting for a by-your-leave from Johnson, Gore gave public notice of his plan to make his subcommittee the Senate's searching...
Naturally, if too many issues are banned from the coming electoral contest, there will not be much of a campaign. But there are peculiarly sensitive problems involved in desegregation which demand that candidates either discuss the subject with utmost moderation or else avoid discussion entirely...
Atget liked to take pictures at odd times of day to avoid crowds. Moving stealthily about with his camera equipment in the quiet hours, he was a suspicious character and was actually arrested for spying several times just prior to the First World War. The early morning light in which he took many pictures imparts a foreboding quiet, to his studies...
Social Error. His campaign tactics were unorthodox but effective. On occasion, Lausche traveled around Ohio by bus. Whenever he had an engagement at a strawberry festival or a county fair, he usually managed to slip in through a side entrance, avoid the official greeters and mingle with the crowds, shaking all hands, admiring babies, and earnestly talking politics to individual voters. His common touch made excellent word-of-mouth publicity and swung many a vote. In 1946, when Lausche ran for reelection, he was defeated by 40,000 votes. At least part of his defeat was attributed to the fact...
...Children's mental illnesses vary widely and cannot be pigeonholed into neat categories. To avoid sticking themselves with the pin on a diagnostic label, many psychiatrists prefer to lump all juvenile mental patients under the cliche heading "emotionally disturbed...