Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...which is operating the controlled T. V. project on a nationwide basis, enlisted the cooperation of the television industry in order to avoid charges of restraint of trade...
...Noodle. In his effort to avoid World War III, the President added a new noodle to the federal alphabet soup: MSP. The letters stand for Mutual Security Program, which will combine in one three-letter bundle all U.S. foreign aid, including EGA, MDAP and Point Four...
...years since its founding, the faith of Islam has been relatively successful in defying progress as well as secularization-in large measure because it manages, more than most other religions, to avoid the troubling conflict between body and spirit, temporal power and divine aim. To millions of Moslems, to kill for the greater glory of the true faith is right and blessed. Together with a new consciousness on the part of Asia's "backward" peoples that poverty is not a law of nature but a condition that can and should be abolished, Mohammedanism can be formidable...
Precision of wording is necessary in good writing; by choosing words that exactly convey the desired meaning one can avoid: a) duplicity, b) incongruity, c) complexity, d) ambiguity, e) implications...