Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jenner last night said he has been trying to avoid duplication of the work done by Representative Harold Velde's (R.-Ill.) House Un-American Activities Committee. Velde's committee has also been investigating selected ex-communists on college faculties, but has not yet announced plans to go on the road...
...Avoid Duplication...
...regulations. Before the week was out, the cattlemen got their wish: the Administration discarded meat-price ceilings (see above), and grading automatically became a voluntary matter again, as in pre-OPS days. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson advised cattlemen to rid their minds of "unwarranted pessimism" and to avoid "panic selling." By week's end the stampede to the stockpens had slowed down, and cattle prices had firmed. An Agriculture Department bulletin reported: "The sharp decline in meat-animal prices seems to be about ended...
...move was made to avoid questions of contestants spending more than their allotted $10 for campaigning he said. Charges of excessive spending followed the Freshman Smoker Committee elections last fall...
World War II did little to interrupt the astronomer-captain's hobby; bombs and torpedoes, in fact, appeared to avoid his ships. In the harbor of Trincomalee, Ceylon, Japanese airplanes sank two neighboring ships; U-boats in the West Indies knocked off three ships sailing close at hand. But nothing happened to any of Captain Drent's commands, and nothing interfered with his astronomical studies. The wartime blackout was actually a help: it allowed the captain's eyes to adjust to darkness, the better to observe the zodiacal light...