Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Treatments. For the relatively mild case of hypertension, Page and colleagues prescribe the obvious-massive doses of moderation. First, they reassure the patient by explaining what they can do about his disease. Then they advise him to do what he can to avoid fatigue and excitement. He should spend ten hours in bed and take short naps, often. Every extra pound of flesh on the patient means work for the heart, so-reduce. Moderation is also prescribed in smoking and drinking, in exercise and sexual activity...
...Crimson soccer squad will be alert to avoid a let-down after Friday's win over Dartmouth when it seeks, its third straight win of the season against M.I.T. this afternoon at 3:45 on the Business School field...
According to Lowell police, the students, who were returning from the Dartmouth weekend in Hanover, pulled out to pass two cars at the same time on a three-lane highway by-pass skirting the city. Hird, the driver, was unable to get back in line in time to avoid colliding with the Fulton vehicle...
That a desire to avoid the Field school was not the motive which kept children at Clark is shown by the situation at Field itself. The ten children new to the Field neighborhood could not go to Clark due to the new districting laws, but the 30 former Clark pupils could easily return to their old school. To date, none of them have. No conflicts between colored and white children have occurred. Moreover, the principal, Mr. Everitt, reports that the majority of colored children does not browbeat the few white children. Their relationships are straight-forward and easy-going. White...
...effort to make good this claim that constitutes Giraudoux's action. Troy's greatest warrior, Hector (well played by Michael Redgrave), comes home to find his brother Paris home ahead of him, with Helen. Hector is determined to return Helen to Menelaus, King of Sparta, and so avoid war; nor is the assured, shallow, minxlike Helen (amusingly played by Diane Cilento) the obstacle. The real obstacles are Troy's idealists, who particularly idealize war; its elderly poets, who love celebrating young men's deaths; its common people, who are spoiling for a fight; its international lawyers...