Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Petersen's guilty plea last week was to the charge that he had "used" secret documents "in a manner prejudicial to the safety and interest of the U.S." (i.e., he had stored the papers in his apartment). By admitting guilt on one count of his indictment, he would avoid a trial that might, according to a top official, probe embarrassingly into details of an "emotional involvement" with a person to whom he fed information. In return, the U.S. agreed to drop two other counts, thus saving itself and The Netherlands the further embarrassment of having to prove that Petersen...
Johnson said that it would be a "good idea" if the Administration consulted Democratic committee chairmen on new foreign and defense programs. This might avoid "crash-landings-only" bipartisanship. President Eisenhower quickly agreed to Johnson's suggestion, and, the next day, he made good his promise by drafting an order directing certain department heads to consult in advance with congressional committee chairmen...
...avoid an outpouring of German nationalist sentiments which might upset the French Assembly just as France too took up the Paris accords, Adenauer urged his coalition leaders to be still on the explosive issue of the Saar. To quiet the opposition Socialists, he summoned their roly-poly leader, Erich Ollenhauer, to his office in Palais Schaumburg, asked him to sit down, then read aloud several Ollenhauer speeches arguing for Big Four talks prior to ratification. Der Alte then picked up the latest Soviet note proposing Big Four talks, and read a portion from it. The two were strangely similar. Ollenhauer...
...feel, there is something truly final, something we can't be expected to do anything about. And since no one will ask our permission before using it, we can regard it with the polite calm with which we contemplate death in general: one doesn't expect to avoid it indefinitely and can't decently complain when it catches up with...
...Cushions & Big Lights. Washington cab drivers are likely to refer to the museum as "the Mellon gallery," which is just what its founder, Financier Andrew Mellon, hoped to avoid. He wanted to build no personal monument but a palace for Everyman, which would be a lasting glory to the nation. The neoclassic building cost Mellon $15 million, is as palatial as any structure to be found in the Western Hemisphere. Its central dome was modeled on the Pantheon in Rome. The rotunda and windowless exhibition wings are constructed of over 40 kinds and shades of marble, from "Istrian Nuage" (Italy...