Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again TV's glassy, curious stare was everywhere. The Democrats were determined to avoid some of the Republicans' TV mistakes. Two cameras had been set up above the floor's center aisle, permitting front views of the speaker on the rostrum. "The Democrats," said one of the Democrats' TV bosses, "will hit the American people...
These are some of the reasons why most religious novels are dull or mawkish. The author's embarrassment shows up in the way he fidgets about in the shallow end of his narrative pool, or the wild high-dives he takes into the deep. Sometimes he tries to avoid these extremes by holding on to the guardrail and pulling himself around the edges, often out of his depth, but never going under...
...about that time, Bob Taft called to say that he had read Dulles' foreign-policy views in LIFE and generally agreed with them. Dulles and the Eisenhower forces decided that he should stay publicly neutral to work out a foreign-policy plank that would avoid a party split on that issue. Said Dulles, just before the nomination: "The Eisenhower people told me they felt this was more important than my coming out publicly for their...
...that the birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, which is actually April 21 but was officially celebrated on June 5 this year will be celebrated on Thursday June n next year, except for customs and excise offices and home ports, which will do their celebrating on Saturday, June 27 to avoid a midweek work stoppage...
...fantastic memory, big enough to store all possible answers to all the tricks she offers. But this, they say, would be a startling feat in itself, probably as difficult as doing the computation in her head. Shakuntala herself, off on a crosscountry tour of the U.S., just tries to avoid all discussion for fear it will disturb her strange talent. Says she: "I do not know my limits...