Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sounded as if it had been written by Mack Sennett. At the main gate, three startled marine guards jumped for safety as the getaway car shot through at 60 m.p.h. They hauled out their .45s, but the pieces were empty; the clips were in their belts (base regulations to avoid accidents). The police telephoned ahead to set up a roadblock. They were seconds too late; the green Oldsmobile got away. A few minutes later, a patrolman answered a fire alarm on a back road five miles from the base. It was the Oldsmobile, abandoned and burning. But when he tried...
...World War I veteran (with the Médaille Militaire and Croix de Guerre), Antoine Pinay was one of the 569 French parliamentarians who voted state powers to Marshal Pétain at Vichy in 1940. But Pinay managed to avoid collaborationist charges by his excellent record as wartime mayor of Saint-Chamond in the Loire. He operates a tannery in the Rhone town of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise. It was the conservative look of Premier Pinay which attracted the Gaullist right wing...
...draft authorities were not bound to follow the recommendation, however, and instead ordered him up for a final physical examination and induction into the Army if he passed. In hopes that he would be rejected because of his poor eyesight and thus avoid imprisonment, he reported for his physical. If he were accepted, he planned to refuse to submit to induction and then turn himself over to civil authorities...
...power-e.g., having warned the nation last fall of mounting Russian strength, he got the Joint Chiefs of Staff (of which he is a member) to approve an increase in Air Force strength from 95 to 143 wings. Yet he has generally been enough of a diplomat to avoid serious open wrangling with the Army and Navy...
...Miss Louisa had kept him hidden through all the long years of war, draft-boards, ration books and national registration could only be guessed at. Some neighbors gossiped that he was Rose's illegitimate son, hidden to avoid family scandal. Louisa herself could not enlighten them. She was carried off to a local hospital with a paralyzing cerebral hemorrhage. Nor could Henry. Scrubbed and trimmed, he was being cared for in a mental hospital only a mile or two away. He knew he had lived through a war, he said, because he had heard bombs; he had been told...