Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also agree that any films shown by the U.N. Council must measure up to the quality standards that Ivy Cinema has been observing, and that the two groups shall exchange film titles in advance of showings to avoid duplication...
Such frantic efforts to avoid open conflict with McCarthy have characterized Eisenhower's relations with the Senator ever since his nomination. The first indication of this policy came when he agreed to remove a vehement defense of General Marshall from a speech he gave in Wisconsin during the campaign. McCarthy had earlier implied Marshall was a traitor. After the election, many people expected the President to take a firmer stand, but he has not. There have been a number of occasions, the most memorable being the Matthews case, when Eisenhower had what seemed perfect opportunities to check the Senator...
...Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens admitted "defects in the Army procedures" that promoted an Army dental officer while his loyalty was seriously in question and gave him an honorable discharge a few days after he pleaded self-incrimination to avoid answering McCarthy's questions about Communist activity. The effect of the discharge was to put the officer beyond the reach of military...
...Ellard A. Walsh, 66, longtime president of the National Guard Association. Walsh knew that behind Hannah's faint praise lay basic distrust of the peacetime Guard: Hannah is convinced that many Guard outfits are shot through with political officers, overaged officers, incompetents, and youths who joined up to avoid the draft. Challenged Walsh: "If they want war, let it begin here."* Then he really warmed up: "If the distinguished savant from Michigan State College, or anybody else for that matter, believes that the Army National Guard can be built up and maintained by assigning it to a home-guard...
...will be more than made up by the freedom of his new job. Says Childs: "I feel I will have more latitude as a reporter. I think the column's been doing very well, but there was the danger of becoming sort of a croaker. I wanted to avoid that by going back to reporting as the basis of my writing...