Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editor promptly asked a key question: What will the U.S. do if the French withdraw? Replied Nixon: The U.S. as a leader of the free world cannot afford further retreat in Asia. It is hoped that the U.S. can avoid direct involvement in Indo-China. But if there is no other recourse, the Administration will have to face up to the situation and send troops...
...most effective way for a French Premier to stay in office is to avoid hard decisions and, if possible, even forthright expressions of opinion. Under Henri Queuille, the colorless compromiser, this technique made a name for itself: L'im-mobilisme. Queuille hung on as Premier for 388 days-a record for postwar France. Last week France's postwar Premier, Joseph Laniel, was hot on Queuille's trail. By an astute and unflagging practice of immobilisme, plus luck, Laniel passed the second-best (290-day) mark, set by Antoine Pinay, his arch rival in the Independent Party...
...Treasury has done its financing, not with the long-term issues the Republicans had hoped to use, but with short-term securities, to avoid siphoning off long-term investment funds for housing and other .construction...
Phillip J. McNiff, librarian in charge of the Lamont Library, which annually collects close to $4000 in fines, has not disapproved of the plan. His only request was that books be placed through a slot in a locked wooden box to avoid stealing...
...Rugby Club was denied permission to play at a benefit for Cerebral Palsy. The Band and football team have consistently been heard on Atlantic Oil sportcasts. This random selection of clubs and sponsors leaves the rule arbitrary at best. Only by giving all groups automatic permission, can the University avoid appearing to discriminate between them...