Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Styles Bridges. Carlson wanted to talk about the problem of electing a Senate majority leader for the next session of Congress. Bridges restated his position: he wanted to be chairman of the Appropriations Committee; he did not want to be majority leader unless that was the only way to avoid an open fight between Bob Taft's friends and the Eisenhower people who seemed to like California's Bill Knowland as a candidate...
Running on a Melbourne track deadened by heavy rain, and staying in an outside lane to avoid the worst of the puddles, Landy reeled off quarters of 59.2, 61.8, 62.0 and 59.1. His time, after running an estimated ten yards extra: 4:02.1, the second-best time ever recorded. That extra ten yards brought Landy to within five yards of the four-minute performance...
...Rainbow of Chaos. The National Assembly ranks with pousse cafe as a peculiarly French concoction. The pousse café is one of the most unnecessary drinks in the bartender's manual-a frivolous combination of liqueurs and cognacs, one poured gingerly atop the other to avoid blending them together. Each ingredient forms one bar in a rainbow of alcoholic chaos, each flavor nullifying the taste of the next, all falling into murky disarray if jiggled by a shaky hand. The Assembly is the pousse café of parliament...
This week, at Sunday Masses in U.S. Roman Catholic churches, priests read the annual pledge of the Legion of Decency, a national Catholic body which reviews all U.S. movies. Most members of their congregations, reciting the pledge with the priests, acknowledged a commitment: to avoid and, if possible, to attack openly all movies which the legion's censors have noted as "objectionable...
...section delineating the functions and position of the Combined Charities Committee was incorporated into the Council by-laws to avoid situations such as the confusion, early in the fall, over what charities were to be supported...