Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avoid the fate that met its predecessor any discussion group at Harvard must have outside speakers as well as discussion. It also needs the organization that the Athenaeum lacked. To get both it would need the support of Harvard's currently existing political clubs...
Also, many law offices which reject students for personal considerations cite law school marks as the reason for refusal in order to avoid a "rather delicate and embarrassing alternative," the report said
...lush blonde (he later married her) and began to snoop through his address books. They charged him with procuring. The first Jelke conviction (TIME, March 9, 1953) was reversed, not because the appellate court found any fault with the verdict but because Judge Francis L. Valente, trying to avoid press exploitation of the gamy details, had barred reporters and the public from the trial. The new trial was wide open. Once more Judge Valente was on the bench, and Call Girl Pat Ward, only 21, retold her sordid idyl of life with Mickey...
...wailed Gaullist Michel Debre. "No way seems to be sure, no solution seems to be the ideal." An Independent Senator complained that France was being blackmailed by its allies. "From surrender to surrender, from self-denial to self-denial, are we ready to abandon everything in order to avoid isolation?" he demanded...
...million bushels of oats, sold only 3.5 million. CCC did not even try to sell its vast holdings of twelve other commodities, including cotton and wool, and wheat, the biggest surplus of all (661 million bushels in inventory). In most cases the reason for holding back was to avoid upsetting world prices or interfering with normal commercial exports...