Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another reporter then asked the President about suggestions that America launch a "preventive war" against the Communist world. Ike defined preventive war as waging some sort of quick police action to avoid a terrific cataclysm of destruction later. Under present conditions, said Ike, a preventive attack would inevitably result in atomic retaliation, leave cities in ruins, thousands dead or mangled. That isn't preventive war, the President said, that is war, and he would not even listen to anyone who came to talk with him about it. A reporter asked if his objection to preventive war was merely military...
...actually old-style U.S. diplomacy, would avoid trying to bunch dissimilar allies. Of some, it would ask little and expect little; with others, it would go as far as necessity, opportunity and prudence suggest...
...ridge at 27,000 feet. At last they reached the top, and planted the flags of Italy and Pakistan on the treacherous summit itself. From Skardu last week came this laconic but triumphant message: "Victory dated July 31. All well. Together at base camp. Professor Desio." Anxious to avoid any repetition of the "who got there first" disagreement between Everest's Hillary and Tenzing, Desio had kept the names of the victors secret...
Though he aims at being the man in the middle, Cullen thinks he has not quite hit it yet: "A few years ago, I was pretty disagreeable. To avoid the drooling, I'd bite 'em. I did it too much. Groucho Marx can get away with it but me. I couldn't. I'm not that good." But if he has to choose, Cullen would rather be snide than syrupy. He has had to lick another tendency-overenthusiasm: "You know. Bert Parks and John Reed King started this routine of building up a climax and shouting...
...pilots (TIME, Aug. 9), struck back with a $1,250,000 damage suit against the Air Line Pilots Association, A.F.L. Strike may spread to United, but Trans World Airlines sidestepped the battle. It ordered its nonstop transcontinental flights to put down in Chicago to refuel and change pilots, thus avoid the cause of the walkout: exceeding an eight-hour limit on flying time for flight crews...