Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overnight accommodations en route can be had either in firehouses or hotels, whichever the student prefers. The engine is leaving under cloak of darkness to avoid any undue fanfare by appreciative local citizens, Kilfoyle emphasized...
Euripides made, very gently so as to avoid the hemlock prescription, but sharply enough to cut, the microcosmic death of a man symbolize and be the death of the macrocosm, Athens...
...order to avoid the usual Christmas program of th Messiah, on Sunday night the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra played Beethoven's 9th Symphony. The most that can be said for this choice is that it gave the musicians a chance to perform some magnificent music. From the audience's point of view, however, the choice was unsuccessful. The work is simply too difficult for the student orchestra to manage...
...other fields, John L Lewis was hit by coronary thrombosis last September. The Aga Khan had a heart attack last February. Comedian Eddie Cantor, since his attack in 1952, has filmed 39 television programs and taped 260 radio shows. However, Cantor does avoid the tension involved in live TV performances in his shows. ("Ida's feeling was that she'd rather have a live husband.") Actor Lee (Death of a Salesman) Cobb suffered his second attack last June, plans to return to work this week. Charles Henry ("Doc") Strub, managing director of California's Santa Anita race...
...freshmen are Daniel M. Collier, Jr., Donald A. Millard, John E. Nathan, James S. Spiegler, and Bradford P. Straus. They decided to avoid the cost of three extra listings in the book, besides Straus' free one, by simply formulating a name which would be last in the directory...