Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...employees and fleets of cars." The sight of U.S. housewives flitting by in outsize station wagons is apt to outrage a poor and proud mule-borne Libyan male who keeps his own wife shrouded in a baracan. Well aware of Libyan sensitivities, embassy and Air Force work hard to avoid riling the people...
...industrial products as well as babies, the Japanese are adopting self-restraint as a national policy. Textile exports to the U.S. and Europe are voluntarily controlled to avoid provoking tariff quotas; export licenses are refused for inferior articles in an effort to upgrade the longstanding Japanese reputation for poor workmanship and imitative design. In his effort to convince the West that Japan deserves less suspicion and more comradeship, Kishi can boast that his nation is the most democratic in Asia, has the highest literacy rate, and possesses a competent work force whose real wages have risen 20% in the past...
...dictators!" shouted Cuba's Minister of State Rauú Roa, and other delegates nodded their agreement. Cuba and Venezuela lined up enough countries to vote down the Dominicans. Ambassador Díaz Ordóñez scrambled to his feet and withdrew his motion just in time to avoid defeat...
Back home after war's end, Ohishi tried to avoid starches, but with a wife and four growing children he could not always afford the more expensive meat and vegetables. Even his family sadly wrote him off as a sly, solitary drinker. Six doctors in a row refused to believe him or to treat him. The site of Ohishi's secret still might have remained a secret still if he had not gone to Hokkaido University Hospital in Sapporo...
...others would have to follow. McDonald has scurried about in search of an opening in management's ranks, tried time and again to sit down with the heads of individual steel companies. But Blough, skilled in negotiating, has kept his alliance together. He went to great lengths to avoid appearing to run the show-though everyone knew that he did. He kept the other steel companies happy by seeking their opinions through Conrad Cooper...