Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took over as Acting Secretary, Herter strained to avoid even the faintest appearance of grasping for his ailing boss's job. He refused, for example, to hold a single press conference. But Herter liked the job, and his friends knew it. After he sat in as the U.S. delegate at the NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Washington (TIME, April 13), he won high praise for his professional polish from some of Europe's top diplomats...
...talks were described as "cordial and frank," which is the diplomatic way of saying that neither side changed its position. For all his courtesy, Debré emphasized that the French are not so keen as the British to make concessions to the Russians, and are determined to avoid any appearance of dealing with Khrushchev behind the back of the West German government...
Unfortunately, the contest was also distinguished in a different and uglier way. It is necessary to say here that The Lampoon put on a brutish display of calculated poor sportsmanship. Even the 'Poon's most hardened critics were appalled at her vicious effort to avoid defeat...
...still don't dig it are reading the published directions, in self-defense. "Lipsi can be danced on very small, overcrowded dance floors. We can practice it at home in the living room. Just always remember: keep moving in the direction that the man is facing, to avoid unpleasant collisions...
...realized that to be a scholar implies a strong degree of moral conscience, than the life of the mind demands a commitment to responsible moral action. It is this statement, so important for an academic community to understand and accept, that has perhaps been lost amid administrative desires to avoid paternalism and bad publicity...