Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to the blow-by-blow, bill-by-bill reporting of Congress, Correspondents McConaughy and Steele give TIME'S editors the background on the stories, the explanation of why something happened the way it did, or what may be expected to happen in the future. ("One thing we avoid." they say, "is the field of pure prediction, which we leave to the columnists.") One thing Correspondent McConaughy can predict, however, is his usual preferential treatment at the beginning of. a Congress, when many of the elevator operators and Capitol policemen are new on their jobs. McConaughy...
...cover. But Committee Member Nixon detected ominous hedging in Hiss's testimony. "I was a lawyer and I knew he was a lawyer." Nixon recalls. "I felt [he] was just too slick ... If Hiss was lying, he was lying in such a way as to avoid perjury, with a very careful use of phrasing ... It was very possibly an act, it seemed...
...Clayton E. Wheeler, writing in the current G.P., the magazine of the American Academy of General Practice, offers simpier advice: use ordinary toilet soap. Only in severe cases of inflammatory skin disease is a doctor's prescription necessary. People bothered with any sort of acne, however, should avoid letting furs and woolens come in contact with the skin and should keep away from oils and greases. Since acne yields slowly, Wheeler also warns that the treatment must be persistent and the patients patient. ¶The Kentucky Health Department has asked the state assembly to enact drastic anti-tuberculosis legislation...
...Devil's Smokescreen. "Dancing in itself is no sin. If dancing were a sin, every bishop in every see in the world would forbid it ... But the prohibition of dancing can cause those very sins we try to avoid." The cardinal, who has forbidden all dancing in his diocese, even in private homes, frowned...
...Council remember the mistakes of the past year. For 1953 was a significant year with attacks on universities, Harvard in particular, imposing increased responsibilities on the Council. To the members' credit, they recognized these responsibilities. But in meeting the problems of nationwide notoriety, the Council has often faltered. To avoid these errors in the future must be a major objective for the new Council...