Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called The Vanishing Island, which it is presenting in the Asian capitals. Commented one high U.S. official: "The show ridicules the ideals of the free West . . ." Freedom is portrayed as license and self-indulgence, freedom of the press as cynical reporting to attract readers, elections as a means to avoid responsibility, free enterprise as grasping for endless profits, and liberty as a meaningless chant. The official concluded that many Government officials were "unhappy about the Moral Re-Armament movement," but were afraid to speak out be cause of its influential support...
Next would come Cabinetmaking, and the question was whether in naming one man or rebuffing another, Segni could hold his pledges together long enough to form a government. "By temperament I am a pessimist," said frail old Premier Designate Segni. "In this way I avoid disappointment when things go wrong...
...already called for the election of a constituent assembly with the sole task of divorcing the church from the state. Before the ugly church-burnings. Perón would probably have won his point; now he wants to avoid a test of strength. His solution apparently is to seek a concordat, i.e., a diplomatic agreement with the Vatican regulating church-state relations. Even negotiating for a concordat might be pretext enough to postpone the election, which was to have taken place by November...
...reasoned, from the fact that breathing control is one of the motor centers most often and severely affected. This has an especially bad effect on speech. "After all," asks Harrington, "how much can you say on half a breath?" Bad speech makes patients nervous and selfconscious, so they avoid social contacts, slip into a vicious circle of embarrassment and withdrawal...
...lands cultivated by French colons. Emigration of Frenchmen might precipitate the collapse of the country's resources at a moment when the pressure of growing population is particularly strong; the handing over of all power to an improvised government might touch off an emigration which everyone wishes to avoid...