Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goalie Charlie Flynn, whose saves were few but among his best this season, may be an important factor in tomorrow's contest with Brown. The Bruins' offense is built mainly about talented soloists who have been noted to avoid extensive teamwork. Among the team's outstanding linemen are League high scorers Peto Tutless, Dan Keefe, and Dan Thompson...
...caution is further emphasized during reading and exam periods, when he calls off all sparring to avoid any injuries to hands...
...opposite extreme is the view that since Government employment is a privilege and not a right any employee may be fired-and his career blasted-on the shadow of a doubt. The argument over Ten-Four-Fifty comes down to how well the order and its administration avoid these two extremes...
International Incident. To avoid serious clashes, Britain, Argentina and Chile signed an agreement in 1949 to refrain from sending warships south of the 60th parallel. Last month a Foreign Office spokesman in London issued a warning that Britain might be forced to disregard the three-nation pact if "incidents" kept occurring in Antarctica. The point was that the General San Martin's new base not only lay well within Britain's claimed slice of Antarctica but was near the announced starting point of a planned British-New Zealand attempt to make the first overland trek across the antarctic...
...maxim, avoid mass, has gained a select following in the ranks of both British and American novelists in the last few years. The tendency is to state, not to show; and the reader's duty is to observe, not to emphasize. Long, Trollope or Tolstoy-type works, with their series of minute contradictions and counter-contradictions within each paragraph over several hundred pages, have been abandoned in preference to far shorter works, such as The Old Man and The Sea. "Mass" or "body" in a novel is now not requisite; therefore both character development and the illusion of realism...