Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Powell, who looks like Santa Claus with a shave, twice refused to testify before Senator Homer Capehart's Banking Committee. Last week, called up again, he refused again-to avoid incriminating himself. But other witnesses were more obliging...
Four teen-age Watertown boys eventually confessed to the politically unsubsidized tomato-tossing, but by that time Averell Harriman had again enraged Ives. To avoid conflict with the Jewish holidays, New York's registration had been split into two periods. This device has been employed by Democratic state administrations in the past, but Harriman read into it a diabolical scheme this year to confuse the voters and keep registration down. Roared Irving Ives: "These Tammany-picked candidates, to hide their ignorance of state affairs, have fallen back on the last resource of sordid politics . . . This year they...
...avoid noise-and enmity-the Air Force last year ordered jet pilots not to roar through the sonic barrier near populated areas. The ADC's chief, General Ben Chidlaw, put the problem to friendly Cartoonist Milton Caniff, whose syndicated (550 papers) Steve Canyon promptly got his jet base out of a jam with local townspeople. Last week, in Shotgun Wedding, ADC men read the even more instructive how-to-do-it story of a real but unnamed jet base commander (actually, Colonel Harry Shoup of Truax Field at Madison, Wis.). The story...
...because it was ruled by the "military aristocracy of the Guards, second-class snobocracy in the center, and behind it all the cloying inertia of the civil service." In the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor pointed out that the legendary Cassandra had come to "a sticky end." To avoid such an end (i.e., suppression), Connor enlisted as a private in the tank corps, worked on a British army newspaper, and rose to a major...
...Then "the ugly, pear-shaped body of a giant octopus [appeared]. He was perched atop the [diver's] helmet, all eight tentacles about Evans' body." Burford slammed a pike pole through the creature's head and pulled Evans aboard. The great thing, Burford decided, is to avoid 1) panicking, 2) provoking the creatures. On those terms, he says, divers and octopuses can coexist...