Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hasn't whipped them up. Russia, for the time being, it seemed to many people I talked to, has all the trouble it can handle in its own backyard. Ike's relaxed and confident handling of Korea was fine, and they are sure that somehow he can avoid a collision with Russia. On domestic affairs, Ike gets credit for everything that has been done, or alleged to have been done (lots of talk on how he's cut down on Government workers, lopped off waste in the military, tapered off aid to foreign governments), and what hasn...
...million more pounds of wool this year. To dispose of this huge surplus, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture John H. Davis last week asked the Tariff Commission to recommend a 7?-a-lb. additional duty on imported wool. With this protection, Davis hoped that the CCC could avoid any new wool purchases this year, and perhaps rid itself of half its old holdings. Wool growers, who wanted something more like the 16? proposed last year, said they were "stunned" by Davis' request. Despite the present 25½? wool tariff, imports have been making steady headway in the U.S. wool market...
...wonder if it has ever occurred to Dr. Kinsey that the women who would avoid his survey are the one-third to two-thirds of U.S. women who are frigid and would not willingly admit to such a deficiency...
...plus salary, has seen his plowed-back profits build him a personal fortune which he puts at $30 million, most of it in his company. But despite his wealth, he has no use for show. He drives his own Ford, eats $1 lunches, goes hatless to avoid hatcheck tips. But he is not penurious. A lover of music (he plays the violin), he was one of the main supports of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for six years with donations totaling more than $2,000,000. At 52, Reichhold, who now makes his headquarters in New York, is giving away...
...Astoria, Ore., Robert Hjorten and George Sullivan spotted a cop about to tag their cars for over-parking, sprinted across the street to put nickels in the parking meters and thus avoid 50? parking fines, were fined $1 each for jaywalking...