Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LIEUT. ROBERT C. LURIE of Chicago: "Interrogated over 50 times, was tried four times for being a 'war criminal' and sentenced to death three times . . . The Chinese Communists repeatedly told him he could avoid all these trials and pressures by a simple 'confession...
Thompson replies: "You've never seen any shortage of oil," and argues that his chief concern is to avoid waste, not keep up prices. Once oil is brought up, some of it is lost through evaporation, handling and leakage. So says Thompson: "The best place to store oil until you need it is in God's reservoir...
...monetary loss from the reduced meal ticket may be the tutors', but the intellectual losers are the students alone. Economy invariably means sacrifice, but the Faculty should at least avoid trimming with a double-edged hatchet...
Football ticket sales will continue to be handled at the room in the basement of the Union for the remainder of this season to avoid confusion, although the rest of the Harvard Athletic Association is now in Shannon Hall at 60 Boylston St. Shannon was the former home of the Army and Air Force ROTC units...
...compulsion, I fail to see its relevance to the issue, though I take exception to describing compulsion as a "characteristic" of religion . . . . Though I do recall being compelled to take certain required courses at the College which I feel it would have been both fortunate and intelligent to avoid...