Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since Allied liberation in World War II, the party line in Italy has been not to make but to avoid a revolution. "One of Togliatti's duties in the period right after the war was precisely to see to it that Communists did not attempt to come to power by force, even though the moment seemed ripe for just that. The partisans were still armed; there were entire regions in a state of terror; the government was weak, and the Reds held key posts in the government and police force. But, as Togliatti explained, the Allies would have crushed...
...Nightingale does not use normal irrigation methods. He flushes dried salt out of the soil, and he plants his crops on the sides of furrows so that their roots will avoid concentrations of salt. He expects that his salt irrigation system will add considerably to the food production of Hawaii's islands...
...April, Laborite Aneurin Bevan sideswiped a bus at Gerrard's Cross in Beaconsfield, recovered control of his Humber Hawk and sped on. Haled to Beaconsfield to face a magistrate last week, Nye made his feeble excuses: "I realize I should have stopped but I was anxious to avoid . . . publicity." The court brushed the plea aside, slapped a fine of $166.10 (including costs) on Britain's most freewheeling public figure and took away his license for three months...
...parity on April 1 aid Benson, he has studied a dozen ways of reducing the huge surplus. So far, nothing has looked practical. The Government's butter stocks are at 360 million Ibs., much of which must soon be moved out of the coolers to avoid spoilage...
...people who practiced what the parson preached. Nowadays, as in the novels of Graham Greene and Mauriac, the religious hero is more likely to be a fallen fellow who depends for salvation solely on the mercy of God. In his first novel, U.S. Poet Dunstan Thompson has tried to avoid both extremes...