Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mushroom cloud climbed 90,000 feet, into the stratosphere, and a fast transport plane carrying an Air Force general and an Atomic Energy Commissioner at 30,000 ft., 50 miles away, had to turn and run to avoid being caught under the lip of the mushroom...
...seemed doubtful that any fair military court could come to a sharper decision, or avoid creating some kind of military limbo in which such hapless men as Colonel Schwable would be compelled to wander, unpunished but unloved, for the rest of their lives...
Plans for the loss of privileges as a punishment did not meet with approval because the committee felt it was too easy for an offender to use another student's name to avoid the penalty...
Stevenson called again for understanding of a foreign people, suggesting that our alliance with the colonial powers of the West have made the East suspect our professed devotion to freedom as hypocritical. He called on America to "avoid the sins of self-righteousness and self-delusion in Asia. Our power," he concluded, "is not absolute nor is our faith infallible...
...tempering with compassion and even humor the terror which he suggests by intense colors and dimly defined, erratic shapes. Tamayo can still terrorize, as in his Seized Cat, which shows an unworldly animal screaming and clawing in a frenzy of fury, but he seems now to want to avoid upsetting his audience. Heated Discussion, although done in disturbing flame reds, shows two comically human figures locked in eternal argument; each figure has his eyes and ears turned away from his antagonist, more interested in his own arguments than his opponent...