Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single-minded determination. A first-rate bridge player, he competed in the Grand National Championship matches of 1933 and 1934. A determined Rotarian, he was president of Rotary International in 1932-33. In Washington, he and his wife Henrietta (the Andersons have a married daughter and son, three grandchildren) avoid the canapé circuit, spend their evenings at home, reading from one of the nation's finest libraries on the history of the West...
...University has become a sanctuary where one can avoid sectarian evangelism--a temple where the representatives of all creeds say prayers before the altar of Tolerance before laying their votive scholarship on the altar of Truth...
...philosophy you cannot avoid it. We are going to question the student's dearest beliefs," Demos states. "I don't try to protect the freshmen, but I don't attempt to ram the ideas into them. I try to examine also the assumptions on which science is built. Our job is to examine everything...
...prisoners fell to the ground, refusing to work. The African guards moved in without hesitation, swinging thick clubs against skulls, spines and limbs. Some of the prisoners made for the fence but were clubbed away; others built "Mau Mau pyramids," falling atop one another in heaps to avoid the harsh blows. When the guards were done, eleven prisoners lay dying and another 23 needed hospital treatment...
Last week Japanese electronics leaders were sharply divided over how hard to push exports of finished consumer products. Ibuka, whose radio exports rose from 32,000 sets in January to 55,000 in March, intends to keep on exporting under his own label. To avoid arousing a protectionist outcry in the U.S., many Japanese manufacturers think a better way to keep on growing is to sell components to U.S. companies to assemble, thus dividing up the work and the profit...