Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee hears complaints about food, runs rallies, supervises elections, and sees to it that dances are held. One of the pleas presented to it last year was an appeal for the Union to avoid serving onion soup before dances. Others wanted beer at supper instead of milk...
...theatrical school in New York, there met Phyllis Isley, married her, lived in artistic poverty while appearing in Greenwich Village theatricals. In 1943, both got big breaks in Hollywood-he in Bataan, she (as Jennifer Jones) in The Song of Bernadette. In 1945, after waiting two years to avoid publicity that might harm Bernadette, Jennifer Jones divorced him, leaving him to carry what the columnists called "the biggest torch in Hollywood." He emerged from the Menninger psychiatric clinic in 1948 "a new man." A few days before his death, he completed (with Helen Hayes) My Son John, perhaps his best...
...accentuate the positive in Price Boss Mike Di Salle's public relations and get ready for a heavy political year, OPS pressagents last week gravely sent their deputies a list of "Things to Avoid" in their copy. Chief among them: "Excessive reference to 'controls' and 'price control program.' " These words had taken on objectionable connotations, the memo explained, because "OPS has been criticized for wanting to perpetuate controls...
...Salle's publicity men did not want anybody to get the notion that the line could be held because of the recent "lull" in prices. They advised: "Integrate the 'lull' into the continuing fight against inflation." Since Government spending contributes to inflation, OPS copy should avoid "reference to 'defense spending.' Use instead 'defense production' . . . with emphasis on 'production' rather than 'spending.'" As an added caution, the memo warned against statements that OPS "has stopped or can stop inflation . . . We are not justified in making such positive claims...
...condemned man in kindly words, a clerk smothers an obscene joke, finally the lieutenant in charge of the firing squad offers to disobey his orders. The result, the chaplain sadly reminds him, would be the same: a more inhumane officer would take his place. "Do evil in order to avoid greater evil, is that what you're getting at?" asks the lieutenant. "Are we any better than the Kartuschkes and their like?" "Perhaps," the chaplain answers, "the difference lies in this, that we never, not. even for a single hour, call evil good...