Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...older men and fathers could conceivably avoid military service, since the present monthly draft, which varies between 6,000 and 16,000, could adequately be filled by the 200,000 entering the 19-25-year-old age group annually, it was learned...
Such moving for a summary judgment, Faulkner explained last night, is a legal maneuver to avoid the delays of a trial. In such motions, Faulkner said, one party to a case contends there are no factual issues, only legal ones, and that these can easily be decided in its favor without a trial...
...professor also scored the university for "not deigning to consult with the NAACP." He emphasized the need for communication in order to avoid misunderstandings and conflicts. "While the NAACP was injudicious in some of its statements," he said, "it was not a real cause of the riots. The university was more to blame for its aloofness...
...uneasy moments. Some may well be disturbed by the recollection of young Adlai in an Eton collar-though it is carefully explained that he did not like it. And yet, on the whole, Mrs. Elizabeth ("Buffie") Stevenson Ives. wife of Career Diplomat Ernest Ives (now retired), has managed to avoid both sisterly gush and campaign-year platitudes. Author Ives was helped by a professional magazine writer. Hildegarde Dolson, but the book shows an authentic freshness. Buffie also displays a wry humor, as when she tells of the Republican friend who suggested she call the book The Egghead...
...special qualification to express his opinion on every subject," the President said. "But in the area of his own competence, he has not only the right but the responsibility to speak out. It is not the function of the head of a university to seek, at all costs, to avoid controversy...