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Word: avoider (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult to avoid the conclusion that the State Department had its eye on the ballot-boxes, not the history books in publishing the Yalta documents at this time. Curiously enough, the Department had first scheduled the issuance of the Yalta volume for October, 1954, just a month before the Congressional election. Violent objections from the British Foreign Office stopped publication then. But leading Republican Congressmen have kept up steady pressure for release of the documents, and the Department finally decided to go ahead last week despite the obvious British objection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Dulles Goes to Yalta | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...fact that Ward's 1954 earnings showed a drop from $6.12 a share to $5.20 a share, Avery charged that Wolfson had 1) milked Washington's Capital Transit of its cash surplus "at the same time he reduced the service" and got five fare raises to avoid losing money 2) swapped stock of his Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp. for stock of his New York Shipbuilding Corp. at a profit of $816,000, and 3) permitted his family-controlled companies to make money selling supplies to publicly owned companies he controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Bare Knuckles in Chicago | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...Where the employee has been cleared in another agency, his chief should consult the other agency "to avoid conflicting evaluations." This is an obvious outgrowth of the Ladejinsky case (TIME, Jan. 3 et seq.), in which Agricultural Attache Wolf Ladejinsky, long since cleared by the State Department, was fired by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, rehired by Harold Stassen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: More Room for Fairness | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...neutralism which would provide them with the continuing money, protection and support of the U.S. while leaving them free to dicker and deal with the Communists. It is a dream others have had, too. But being what they are and where they are, the Japanese can hardly hope to avoid the angry winds around their wood and paper houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Land of the Reluctant Sparrows | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...varsity's only other points came from Phil Burnaman's forfelt into the quarter-finals at 130. Burnaman, who usually wrestles at 137 was too weak to avoid a 5 to 0 decision in the quarters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling Squad Takes 8th Place In Eastern Bouts | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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