Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beautiful." In the evening, instead of dancing, many of the 2,000 guests at the Lord Mayor's ball stood in a ring around the dais, just staring at the blushing Queen. Elizabeth's smiles gradually vanished, and soon she left the room to avoid the sea of staring eyes. Said one embarrassed Australian: "We must look like a bunch of wild colonials...
Since General Education's inception in 1948, instructors have been plagued by the fact that many freshmen coming from superior schools are familiar with the material offered in the elementary courses in one or more of the three areas. To avoid this needless duplication, the Committee on Educational Policy, in its recommendations for a new, broad system of advanced standing and placement made two days ago, proposed that an exceptionally well prepared student be permitted to substitute one or two advanced courses for the elementary ones...
...Civil Service investigations were conducted did not lend itself any too readily to televised dramatics. The official government statement made in 1952 makes clear the effort to avoid hysteria; "In establishing rules for security in the Civil Service with respect to Communists, Fascists and their fellow-travellers, the British Government has been concerned to protect vital state secrets while at the same time interfering as little as possible with the civil liberties of the individual. In order to do this, a distinction is drawn between secret and non-secret posts. To have associations with Communists or Fascists does...
...What must you do to avoid...
...next day it turned out that indestructible Poppa was still alive. In its forced landing (made to avoid a flock of huge jungle birds), the Cessna had damaged nothing but its undercarriage. Its three occupants clambered down cliffs to the crocodile-infested river, while clouds of mosquitoes whined about them. As night fell, they built a fire to keep curious elephants at bay. One elephant, Hemingway said later, "was silhouetted twelve paces away, listening to my wife snore." When he woke her, she said, " 'I never snore. You've got a fixation about "it.' I said...