Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tired and frustrated, Republicans quarreled among themselves. Observed New Hampshire's Charles Tobey: "There is an injunction in the Scriptures: 'Avoid vain repetition.' I wish you would all remember it." Snapped Wiley: "I suppose I should accept it graciously coming from my good friend Senator Tobey. But I think he should avoid assuming the right to lecture constantly us who have been here...
...officer in charge of escorting the Russians out of the U.S. zone last week was Major Gunther E. Hartel. Anxious to avoid a siege such as the Russians staged in Frankfurt two years ago - they left only after the U.S. cut off water, food and lights - the major invited the Russians to a formal conference at his office. At the conference, the Russians again refused to leave, but when they went back to their quarters, they found G.I.s busy loading their baggage into an Army truck...
...specialist in the field, but a medical journalist. Isaac Harvey Flack won a license to practice medicine in Manchester when he was only 21. Soon he joined the staff of the British Medical Journal, which he now edits along with a popular journal for laymen, Family Doctor. To avoid any charge of self-advertisement, Flack uses the pen-name "Harvey Graham...
...pursuing their objective of dominating the entire Asian continent as a part of their long-range scheme of world conquest; Their present activities in Asia would lend force to the popular belief that Soviet Russia is trying to get all of Asia first into its orbit in order to avoid having to fight on two fronts...
...industry's moguls, led by entrepreneur extraordinary Harold E. Stassen, have decided that an oligopoly sustained by unlimited television broadcasting might be better than the present unprofitable and uneconomical free competition. It would certainly bring a better product to all the people at a lower price; it would avoid needless duplication of resources, and would stabilize the industry immeasurably...