Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were a little amazed but left me alone." Last year Mary traveled by car to New Orleans' Mardi Gras with five fellow Fisk students who asked her to stay in the car during stops for gas, made her sit on the floor while going through Birmingham, Ala., to "avoid attracting attention...
Producer-Director Hal Keith hopes to avoid these traps by ignoring them. The show's title will remain as it is. Keith insists the program will not "degenerate into a miserable husband & wife show." Says Keith: "This isn't going to be about two people in aprons over an egg beater in the kitchen. It's still about Mr. Peepers, and he's still a science teacher, and he'll still have all the same troubles with students and doormen and whatever. He's just got married, that's all. Lots...
...yesterday denied reports that the group has at present any clauses forbidding Negro membership. "This is a family matter," he explained. "We merely want to clarify confusion over the rules. But we want the members of the club to be able to come to the meeting in private and avoid as much emotionalism and publicity over this thing as possible...
...seem to be able to understand," he told McCarthy, "that often people have to get together to exchange views, and there is no written order." What Joe McCarthy understood quite well was that the more high Administration officials he could involve, the longer he could avoid taking the witness stand himself...
Professor Morison spoke before MacLeish. The distinguished historian charged his colleagues "to avoid acts, or associations that will bring our university into difficulties; to observe a decent respect to the opinions of mankind, even when these opinions of mankind, even when these opinions are erroneous and absurd; and above all, to avoid an attitude of smug superiority--the unforgivable sin in a democratic society...