Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Administration pledged to state ownership of the oil land, however, Attorney General Herbert Brownell must now support the Texas claim. Anxious to avoid a Court dispute, Brownell has suggested letting the coastal states take the oil from the submerged land without giving them title to the disputed sea bottom. Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay and other proponents of state-ownership have charged Brownell with backing off the party platform. And those favoring Federal control are grumbling over the loss of revenue to the nation...
Besides raising the Committee's stature, this selection would forge a much needed link between the Administration and the Committee. It would end the present practice, in which student representatives depart with little coaching from University Hall on how to avoid pitfalls in the recruitment game...
Meanwhile, House and Senate committees seeking Communists in education disclosed this weekend they will join forces in a joint probe in order to avoid overlapping and duplication of separate investigations...
Thomas P. Malone '53, who represented the H.L.U. at the meeting, said last night Watson's "central calendar" plan will work because "the difficulties were over the lack of information . . . and most organizations are anxious to avoid conflict...
...Days to Live. Almost before Author Schaeffer and his sub mates had warmed to the role of ship-killers, they found themselves among the hunted. By Christmas 1942, the U-boats in the Atlantic were already spending much of their time trying to avoid radar and Allied planes. In Schaefler's boat the men got so jumpy they began mistaking seagulls for planes and shelling lighthouses. Once they were pinned down for eight hours while 168 depth charges thundered around them...