Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impatient men are advised to report to University Hall earlier than 4:45 p.m. to avoid lines stretching out into the center of the Yard. Most tutors and advisors will hold hours this morning and early this afternoon for men who still have unsigned study cards...
Students eager to avoid a ten dollar fine must remember to file their study cards at 2 University Hall before 5 p.m. today...
Then the President laid the Eisenhower Administration's power policy right on the line. Said he: "We shall avoid extremes. We shall neither withdraw from the power field nor federalize all electric power generators in the U.S. Instead, we shall continue to advance in a spirit of helpfulness to all localities, and in a spirit of cooperation with local citizens. When local enterprise can shoulder the burden, it will be encouraged and supported in doing so. But where local action cannot or should not fully meet the need, we shall have federal action...
...Korea, or indirectly as in Indo-China-any territory we have undertaken to defend, she must take the consequences not only on the violated land, but on her own mainland. Such a decision would involve risk, but there is no course we can follow without risk. To avoid a Communist world, we of the United States and other free nations must be willing to fight-now, if necessary...
Recently, Mansure walked by the GSA building and was shocked at "the unsightly appearance caused by the lack of uniformity in the position of the Venetian blinds." To avoid offending the esthetic glances of tourists, he decreed that all Venetian blinds in his building would be arranged just so (halfway up in the daytime, all the way down at night), promised "periodic inspections . . . to assure compliance." Then he found that many Government workers were writing on only one side of paper. His next order: memos will be typed or printed on both sides. As every bureaucrat knows, writing on both...