Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Dulles in the Far East was setting the foundations for a political-military alliance that could, if carried through, provide a position of strength for years to come. Dulles' delicate and difficult job: to build the will to resist without provoking war; to promise protection, yet to avoid tying down U.S. strength; to present to the Communists a front that is both adamant and flexible. Since many of the pressures on Dulles sprang from exaggerated jitters about World War III, his important task was bound to be made easier as the free world absorbs Churchill's wisdom...
Matusow, careful to avoid incriminating himself, was thoroughly briefed by attorneys (including Communist Nathan Witt). In one day he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than a dozen times, and, while flaunting his falsehoods, he never once confessed to perjury. Throughout the hearings Communist Hero Matusow revolved like a sort of human yoyo, pulled carefully back and forth by the party's invisible strings...
Slightly pessimistic about the long-rung chances of stopping the Communists from taking over the rest of Europe and Asia without a world war, those polled overwhelmingly favored fighting the Russians as a last resort. But, Stouffer said, "the American people are not trigger-happy. They want to avoid war if possible." Sixty-one percent still wanted the U.S. to try to talk things over with Russia to settle the problem...
...entire world capitalism - is only a matter of time. All mankind is on the eve of the total extinction of world capitalism and the total victory of socialism. The animosity and struggle between these two camps are so acute that all races, all nations and classes cannot avoid being swept into the struggle...
...hookup between the auditoriums was arranged to avoid recurrences of the near-riot which occurred last November when more than 5,000 people had to be turned away from Arnold J. Toynbee's lecture, Dow said...