Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signaling. The driver of the Lincoln applied the brakes strongly . . . The truck continued to move to the left, [and] the Lincoln was forced off the highway with the left wheels going into the sand. The truck continued onward. The driver of the Lincoln attempted to turn back . . . apparently to avoid a cement post, and the left front wheel of the vehicle dug into the sand, flipping the Lincoln on its top upon the highway...
...plastic bowl. As he calls out each number, his assistant ("Miss Marco") posts the number on a giant Marco card on the wall. When a line is filled, the M.C. calls it a game and announces a special phone number (different for each game to avoid jamming circuits). Viewers call in if they think they have won, are kept hanging on the line until their cards are checked, then are announced as winners. (Some first-night prizes: a TV set, a dishwasher, a trip for two to Hawaii...
...them, except for the commercials (for American Bakeries Co.), were written by Amy. To keep her weight down, Amy lived on orange juice, water and buttermilk during the shooting; to counter the hot lights on the set, she took 50,000 units of vitamin A each day; to avoid disconcerting her audience by flashes from the metal inlays in her teeth, she had them all replaced with plastic...
Stop & Go. A radar system to control stoplights and avoid traffic tie-ups was tested in Norwalk, Conn, by New Haven...
Once off the road, the army forces might have trouble keeping contact with the rebels. This would be particularly true if the rebels tried to avoid combat and play for time in the hope that throngs of Guatemalans within the country might be won over to them. As a hedge against that, the government passed out guns to some of its Red-led unions of workers and peasants, and sent them to police roads and villages in the interior...