Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting of the committee held last Tuesday, the HYRC representative asked the group to endorse Pusey's entire statement, including a section deploring the use of the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying. But because agreement could not be reached among the member groups of the committee, the blanket endorsement was not given...
...does not act unlawfully or immorally or does not use his position to distort facts or to insist upon the acceptance of his own beliefs as the only possible truths." Moore said he felt that these criteria would allow a person to use the Fifth Amendment to avoid testimony...
...locked tight in the grip of 400 Russian civilians who completely control the government and the economy, and another 150 Russian officers who run the army and the police. The native population is for the most part sick with starvation, tuberculosis or plain terror. "It is almost impossible to avoid the security police who are everywhere," says Athanassios. "You can't even trust your own brother...
...captain and the other guard went on drinking. Athanassios refilled their glasses, this time adding a dash of morphine. Within five minutes both were asleep. Athanassios lit two lanterns as a signal. Ashore, his waiting brother Christakis hastily stripped off his clothes, dodged into a doorway to avoid two approaching soldiers, then darted naked across 50 ft. of waterfront road to dive into the icy harbor. Soon afterward, Athanassios hauled him aboard the Dynamo. With engine snorting, running lights burning bright and passengers sweetly sleeping, the two brothers then set out for Greece...
Year in & year out, the official weather men do a much better job than the amateurs with their rheumatism, but the professionals' spectacular failures are remembered long after their normal successes have been forgotten. Their trouble is that in trying to avoid failures they have run up against an obstacle created by themselves. The observation methods of modern meteorology pull so many figures out of the air that no human brain or combination of brains can digest them all in time to make a fully considered forecast...