Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Avoid Dissesnion
...initial request was made three weeks ago, and asked that charges be computed annually, rather than quarterly, in order to avoid overpayment for the slack of calls in summer...
With Christmas vacation well on the way and the problem of avoiding the Harvard Square Santa Clauses foremost in the minds of may students, thoughts are liable to turn to home, where it is easier to avoid the Jolly Old Fellow, or to the balmy isle of Bermuda, where he is docked out in walking shorts...
...subject matter was strictly from the Red handbook: miners, child laborers, peasants, and decadent rich folks sunning at Capri. But Guttuso managed to avoid the wooden lifelessness or shrill caricatures of his less talented comrades (see below). The hit of the show was The Dying Hero, an effectively gloomy oil of a man dying on a hospital bed. Although the central figure is realistically proletarian, Guttuso rose above the level of flat political posters with his geometric handling of pillow and sheets, skillfully done in shades of off-white against a violently contrasting red drapery...
Reynolds said he would like to avoid "if at all possible" upping the board rates during the middle of the year, but that increased costs may make it necessary. "We felt very badly about moving it up 50 cents in 1951 and we'd feel badly about it now, but if the present trend in costs continue we'll have to," he added...