Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never smokes, eats sparsely, almost never drinks. He likes to cook his own morning oatmeal, sometimes drinks plain hot water instead of coffee or tea. In Washington he and his second wife Rosina (his first marriage ended in divorce) live quietly in their own home near Chevy Chase; to avoid the capital rounds, they consulted a protocol expert for advice on invitations they could properly skip. He enjoys dancing, good music, golf and-"through force of habit," he says wryly-dishwashing. He plays the guitar, likes chess and a careful game of bridge. He writes weekly to his children...
...most reassuring anticoup voice came from the top. President João Café Filho, whose prestige would be needed to guarantee the success of a bloodless coup and avoid the risk of civil war, told an interviewer: "I will never be instrumental in establishing a dictatorial regime." At week's end, after a long conference with the President, General Canrobert decided that there was no reason why he should not enter the Central Army Hospital for a long-postponed medical checkup...
...groggily up into the belly of the B29. The B-29's civilian skipper, Stan Butchart, hoped to land his valuable cargo without further trouble, but the chase plane's pilot saw that there was still some dangerous fuel in the X-1A's tanks. To avoid a major calamity back at home base, Butchart reluctantly decided to jettison his cargo, and the $1,000,000 X-1A dived clear, to crash to fragments on an Air Force desert bombing range...
...Documents indicating that to avoid the conflict of interests involved in a governor's engaging directly in business, Yale carried on a healthy diamond trade in Madras through an agent named Mrs. Catherine Nicks...
...their plan of attack as carefully as any sales campaign. They spread their men around in different clubs covering every customer market, make sure to put each man in the club where he can do the most good, upgrade the good producers. They look for his natural customers and avoid places where tight cliques make it impossible for a new man to make headway...