Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light plunges into vision . . . a rush of heat, like the opening of a furnace door." The witness was obsessed by the horror of the explosion he had seen, and as the months passed, he grew to believe that if all men could see it, they would strive to avoid it, and peace would result...
Thus a student who attended graduate school for a few years and then had children would probably still be drafted before he reached the age of 35. If his local draft board had an unusually large pool of volunteers and younger draftees, however, the man could conceivably avoid induction altogether...
...Cover-Up." The Laborites were just as anxious to avoid any hint of "McCarthyism." Said Herbert Morrison, during whose tenure the pair escaped: "After all, the noblest band of men in history had their Judas ... If they had been arrested and ultimately found innocent, that would have brought discredit ..." Only a few were so rude as to be blunt. The truth is, snapped Laborite Alfred Robens, that there was "a close circle of 'coverup' for one's friends [in the Foreign Office], How can it be that a couple of drunks, a couple of homosexuals well known...
...charter. In order to enforce disarmament the U.N. should have two basic powers which it now lacks: (1) a restricted but effective military force under its own control to back up its decisions, and (2) a World Court empowered to summon any disobeying nation before it. These powers would avoid war as a means of enforcement, and if administered impartially, should be acceptable to all countries...
...expansion of the college as no more than the "opinions of a group of outside visitors, devoted to Harvard's interests." As such, their statement can be praised, particularly for the way it clearly raises many important questions and problems the University must soon face. It is hard to avoid the conclusion, nonetheless, that the report ignores a good many questions and leaves several assumptions unstated when it makes its unequivocal recommendation "that Harvard College should grow in response to the pressure of population...