Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bordeaux, Judge Marcel Nussy Saint-Saëns (nephew of the composer) had delayed his verdict until 1 a.m. to avoid a public demonstration of quite another kind. There, not far from the desolate ruin of Oradour, feeling had run high all month long as witnesses told of the grisly mass murder. Paris newspapers had built the story up into one of the year's great controversies; it proved particularly timely, as a reminder of past German cruelties, for politicians who oppose a European army in which Germans and Frenchmen will wear the same uniform. The verdict: death...
...prison for his war crimes. A threadbare, ragtag lot, the Freikorps met, often in groups of 150, in beer halls, and talked of a Nazi government in West Germany, "possibly by 1957." Unlike the group arrested by the British, which was clever enough to realize that neo-Nazis must avoid the obvious Nazi trappings, the Freikorps deliberately set out to be pennywhistle Hitlers. As such, they were a laughable lot-except to a world that once laughed over the doings in a Munich beer cellar...
Manager Schueler refused to release his actors from their contracts, but did give each a little Rückversicherung: a letter acknowledging that the actor had "left nothing untried" to avoid performing in the play...
...most important single fact is that, after 26 cabinet changes in seven years, Greece has a government with a solid enough majority (239 out of 300 seats) to avoid compromising its program. Said Papagos: "We will be here for the next four years, just like my friend President General Eisenhower. There will be no more changing of governments every six months. We have a clear plan for Greece, and we will carry it through...
...proceeds. Occasionally, she let it be known, Jelke beat her when she objected to some of the "Johns" he had arranged for her to meet. She also said that she was thinking of writing a teen-age column for a newspaper to "advise other teen-agers . . . how to avoid the perils of life...