Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate over the censure of Joe McCarthy. That controversy is the Senate's own business, he added, but anything that tended to divide the party is something that must concern him. as the party's chief. And he would take whatever meas ures are available to avoid and ameliorate such a division...
...Castillo Armas decree left unanswered one big question: Will the United Fruit Co. get back some or all of the 400,000 acres it lost by expropriation under the deposed government? At the moment, the company is being careful to avoid any moves which might embarrass the new government. The company's claim of $15 million as compensation for the lands expropriated by the old regime is still pending, but United Fruit is considered likely now to treat that as just one item in an overall settlement which it hopes to negotiate with the Castillo Armas regime...
...Mendès is honest. He commands respect and admiration, and no objective review of his performance can avoid that conclusion. He inherited a situation which had already been rendered disastrous by the inability of France to defend Indo-China, and in that desperate situation, the Geneva agreement is not entirely...
...hear, hear " rose to a roar from the Labor benches; the Tories responded only desultorily. In the brief debate the Tories were uneasy and reticent. To a demand for more details, Eden responded with the weary patience of a worried nursemaid to a pestering child, begging his questioners to avoid pessimism until the full texts were published. To Eden's embarrassment the most lavish praise came from the Bevanites...
Underlying this relaxed and healthy emotional attitude, Dr. Dunbar saw one factor as most important: "Centenarians have contrived to avoid or navigate the dangerous age range from 50 to 70"-which she compared to adolescence because of the severity of the changes in the individual's body and in his relationship to the outside world. "The individual beginning his second half-century of living is concerned about the possibility of losing himself sexually and vocationally." Centenarians, having "navigated" this period successfully, keep not only an interest in sex but also their potency...