Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their efforts, the Chinese could not organize a search big enough to trap the Dalai Lama. Proceeding mostly at night to avoid Red spotter planes, the royal fugitive dispensed with all ritual. (Normally, any place where the Dalai Lama stays automatically becomes sacred and may not be used again as a dwelling.) Once across the Tsangpo and protected by jubilant Khamba tribesmen, he took a course unanticipated by the Chinese, headed for the Indian border town of Towang in the wild and wooded plateau region of Assam province...
...disguised Curtis and Lemmon light out for Miami with an all-girl band. As gents of lusty instincts, the proximity to pulchritudinous musicians strains their ambition to remain disguised, but somehow they persevere. Curtis eventually executes some fancy footwork to win Miss Monroe, and despite every effort to avoid it, Lemmon wins Joe E. Brown-in the role of a vacationing millionaire...
Miss Margaret E. Canty, 34, was employed at Harvard from 1951-1957, and was allegedly dismissed in connection with the embezzlement of a large sum of money. The incident was not reported to police at that time because the University reportedly wished to avoid adverse publicity...
Also, the pairings Saturday were reversed, with the Varsity's number one man facing the Presbyterian number two man. Other switches were made to avoid duplicating Friday's match. For these reasons, Barnaby claimed that Presbyterian's Saturday triumph can be partially discounted...
...Nasser's Aswan High Dam would be to show all Asia and Africa that Soviet aid is in fact tied with strings. Though the Communists were now in control of Baghdad's streets, did they dare bid for full control of Iraq? If they did, could they avoid a new revolutionary situation, in which powerful Arabic emotions would be turned against them? Dare they risk the West's mistake of opposing Nasser in such a way as to strengthen...