Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also, the University cannot always avoid the political and religious issues which arise when a legislative body is the ultimate director of an educational institution. There can be no chapel on campus, for example, and no chaplain on the University payroll; and courses in religion can not be counted for full credit on a student's record...
Before the House committee, Rutman invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying about his Communist affiliations between January 1, 1947, and August 4, 152. He also refused to answer allegations that he had attended a picnic on September 7, 1952, sponsored by the West Philadelphia Civil Rights Congress...
...trustees of Temple had formerly told newspapers that Dunham had explained his conduct on the ground that "he disapproved of the committee and that he intended to avoid acting as an informer...
...stepped-up campaign planned by the Attorney General and the chief of the FBI can be anchored firmly to existing law and guided by the sound principles of individual guilt and innocence which have previously applied, the pitfalls of the witch hunt and political persecution can be avoided in this country. [But] it would help to keep the air clear and avoid misconceptions all around if there could be less indulgence of such colorful-but loaded-phrases as "utterly destroy the Communist Party, U.S.A...
...Sapio and the Democratic organization picked their man: hardworking, grey-toned Averell Harriman. 62, a well-meaning but ineffectual candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952, who has never been elected to anything other than a board of directors. Frank Roosevelt-choosing his words carefully so as to avoid a frontal attack on either Harriman or the bosses-cried out that he was still in the race. He was among the few who thought...