Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...busy enjoying the fun. The chance for a stalemate, therefore, increased, i.e., after bitter debate, the Bricker amendment would be sent back to committee for "further study," and would emerge from time to time to cause more bloodshed. This was exactly what the Administration did not want. To avoid it, Eisenhower was considering the ultimate step: a TV appeal to the nation...
...organization, represented by Alexander H. Bright '19 and Edward L. Bigelow '21 has issued letters seeking the necessary money from ex-athletes. Limitation of the drive was necessary to avoid conflict with formal University fund appeals...
...Hemingway said the blue and white Cessna crashed when it dived at low altitude to avoid hitting a flock of flying ibises--jungle birds big enough to smash the canopy of the plane. . ." (N.Y. Times, January 26, 1953, page 25, section...
...Pusey to testify, McCarthy sneered: "I don't see why. He has already made his position quite clear that he will go on maintaining a privileged sanctuary for Fifth Amendment Communists." Next Week: East Lynn. The following day, it was harder to stay with McCarthy than to avoid him. Three men were ejected from the hearing room, among them a suspended General Electric employee from Lynn, Mass, named Nathaniel Mills...
...citizen has reason to believe that an associate is guilty of violating Federal law he is under obligation to report his beliefs to the FBI. If he has no reason to suspect a delinquency it is his moral responsibility to avoid betraying his fellow into the hands of an unscrupulous and ambitious politician. To the extent that he observed these tenets, Professor Furry (and Leon Kamin) should receive the support of fair-minded...