Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meditates for a moment and attempts to describe the bouquet. He may have to repeat the process a number of times before he can come out with a suitable adjective, such as flowery, chalky, flinty, sour, or maybe just plain grape. Although preferring imaginative words, the members try to avoid such phrases as "the smell of soldiers marching through Elysian fields...
Next day German plainclothes cops arrested Fritz Roessler as he signed his phony name in the Bundestag lobby list; they led him off through a basement window to a waiting car, to avoid photographers out front. He went quietly, freely admitting his B deception. A shocked Bundestag committee quickly lifted his parliamentary immunity. The charges brought against him as he sat in Bonn jail: forgery of documents, unauthorized job-holding, use of false name and-a grave offense in Germany-unauthorized use of a Ph.D...
Brief Victory. Nevertheless, Negre tried to run A.F.P. as if it were in fact independent. When government agencies sent handouts, A.F.P. conscientiously identified the sources. By its performance, A.F.P. largely managed to avoid the taint of being kept. As a result, by last year A.P.P. had grown even bigger than old Havas, was servicing 41 countries, 2,500 newspaper clients (including North and South American), 120 radio stations. This year it expects to gross 1,080,000,000 francs ($3.1 million) on top of its 1,470,000,000-franc ($4.2 million) government subsidy...
...circuit will play every other club represents a turnabout for Harvard and Yale, at least. Only a year ago Yale's Bob Hall reminded this department that there was no such thing as an Ivy League--it was an "Ivy Group." The Blue and the Crimson wanted to avoid any organized pact which would commit them to playing Cornell with any regularity, and in the case of Penn, never. Harvard and Yale weren't being stuffy. They simply did not want to get trounced annually nor recruit a team capable of meeting Dr. Stassen's legions on even ground...
...words of one admiring contemporary, "could sell a breath of air." Sears was a railroad telegrapher in tiny North Redwood, Minn, in the '80s-a time when shady manufacturers unloaded their stocks by shipping them C.O.D. to unsuspecting small-town merchants, then offered them cut-rate prices "to avoid return shipping costs." When a shipment of men's "yellow watches," hunting-case type, and gold-filled (value of the gold: 27?) was refused by a local merchant, Sears got them for $12 apiece and sold them for $14. In six months Sears, then 22, cleared $5,000, moved...