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Word: avoider (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could launch, general tactical action that would not only smash the invasion but blunt Red China's air power, communications system and expanding industrial plant for the foreseeable future. Under this alternative atomic weapons would be used against the Chinese mainland, although great care would be exercised to avoid indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Time of Decision | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...hardly likely that freshmen would avoid Dillon Field House and the Indoor Athletic building if the requirement were withdrawn. Over 60 percent of upperclassmen participate in some form of House athletics and an additional ten to fifteen errant exercise regularly-quite voluntarily. Neither the athletic program not freshman health, then, would suffer if the requirements were withdrawn entirely. At least for men holding term-time jobs, an exemption or requirement reduction in physical training is both well deserved and needed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rushing to PT | 3/29/1955 | See Source »

...widened lane will mean that players on defense will have to stay out of a larger area around the basket to avoid losing the ball for a "three-second" violation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/29/1955 | See Source »

Unlike Fifth Amendment users, professors employing boycott measures to prevent inroads on academic freedom by other institutions avoid the leftist label, and embarrassment both to themselves and to their own universities. The actions of Miller and his colleagues--whose records have never been associated with the word "communism"--have had great force in showing the public, as well as University of Washington administrators, in what contempt the thoughtful academic community holds the Oppenheimer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boycotting Washington | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Democrats must forget about the Yalta papers and show Americans the dilemma the Administration has created in Formosa if we are to avoid all-out war or a serious diplomatic defeat, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 professor of History, said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schlesinger Declares Yalta Issue Confuses Problem of Formosa | 3/26/1955 | See Source »

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