Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...draft, a two-year extension of the doctors' draft, an active reserve program with stiff penalties for absentees, active basic training for National Guardsmen and, most controversial of all, six months' basic training-at $30 a month and without veterans' benefits -for teen-agers who would avoid the draft and accept a 9½-year obligation of service in the reserve...
...variety of shared experiences (Dewey); it is ethical culture; it is insight into man's nature. (The last is the view of a group that might be called 'Atheists for Niebuhr')." All these views, says White, have one thing in common: the desire "to avoid identifying religion with any claim to knowledge that might have to run the gauntlet of scientific test." Most contemporary thinkers want "to make religion fill the void created by the dissolving effects of science, both physical, as at Hiroshima, and spiritual. This has been the outcome of the 19th century...
Williams and Dillenberger both emphasized that the change is unique in requiring at least three years of graduate work from women as well as men. Special shorter programs may be instituted later after careful consideration. Dillenberger said. "We want to avoid an influx of one-year students that might lower standards," he added...
...ideas of security and secrecy ("There aren't any secrets about the world of nature. There are only secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men. Sometimes they are secret because a man doesn't like to know what he's up to if he can avoid...
...Russian-born wife of Earl Browder, deposed head (1946) of the Communist Party in the U.S., and mother of his three sons; after long illness; in Yonkers, N.Y. Raissa Berkman married Browder in Moscow in 1926, entered the U.S. from Canada in 1933, waged a four-year fight to avoid deportation on grounds of illegal entry. In a politically unpopular decision, the Board of Immigration Appeals permitted her to leave the country and re-enter as a quota immigrant in 1944. She was later barred from naturalization, at the time of her death was again subject to deportation and, with...