Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George R. Stewart's 1941 novel, Storm, a young meteorologist named the low-pressure areas on his map after girls (the stormiest: Maria). The U.S. Weather Bureau has since tagged feminine names on hurricanes. This year, to avoid repeating the names of three memorable 1954 hurricanes (Carol, Edna and Hazel), the bureau decided on a new list of names...
...since the fall of Dienbienphu, are already building jet air bases and plan to transfer the Australian garrison from Suez to Malaya. The British would like Singapore to be GHQ of the treaty organization, but may yield to the U.S. preference for Bangkok or Manila, either of which would avoid the stigma of colonialism attaching to Singapore...
...overturn, at will or at whim, 15 governments in the last nine years. Once elected for their five-year terms, the Deputies are assured of tenure. If they are careful not to bring down two governments within 18 months by constitutional (314 votes) majorities -which they can and do avoid by close collaboration among themselves-there is no power in France, least of all a Premier, who can force them to face the voters...
Each party's Deputies weigh the exact amount of support they can afford to give a government to acquire credit and avoid blame with their followings, whether to keep it in by abstention, to vote for it without joining it, to join it but criticize it, or to join on condition that the party gets a choice ministry...
What precautions can the doctor take to avoid bringing on emotional upsets in such high-strung patients? Jarvinen's suggestion: physicians should maintain easy, sympathetic attitudes, try to soothe the patient's anxieties. Most important, hospitals should play down the importance of ward rounds. Nurses should not bustle and fuss, sprucing up a patient and remaking his bed, before the doctor comes...