Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present many students avoid the H.A.A.'s athletic participation tickets because the $20 fee makes high-priced education still more expensive. A substantial percentage don't buy tickets to watch varsity sports because the cost for that is $21. Meanwhile the H.A.A., which depends on these charges for its income, is piling up bigger deficits each year as inflation swells its overhead. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has to underwrite this loss...
...from hostile attack. Finally, the Reds accepted the U.N. assurance that flights over the protected zones would be limited "insofar as practicable." The U.N. is putting up orange, cerise and yellow balloons over the site to mark it by day, and searchlight beams to mark it by night, to avoid mishaps...
...also learned that they should avoid "such views of performers as emphasize anatomical details indecently," and got an obscure warning that "the use of locations closely associated with sexual life or with sexual sin must be governed by good taste and delicacy." Wrestling with the problems of advertising, the code suggested that six or seven minutes was long enough for the commercial on a 60-minute show, and hoped that the sponsor's name would only be shown "fleetingly" on the TV screen...
...Blame Me (Sarah Vaughan; M-G-M). Sarah gambols over the scale in what sounds like a big try to avoid the melody at all costs. When she does run into melody, she gives it a velvet ride...
...shaft of sunlight caught Vag full on the face as he spun to avoid the last tackler, and there he was, flat on his back in bed clutching the tight-packed pillow...