Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baseball that may confuse her housewife listeners. The " mood of something for everyone is heightened by two minutes of The Pocahontas Polka followed by two minutes of Ibsen's A Doll's House. As a commercial bonus, the first show offered three ways of achieving poise: 1) avoid nervous giggles, 2) stand and walk as if you're proud of yourself, 3) use Odorono...
...Government had been challenged by Tennessee's Pewee Coal Co., which was taken over in 1943, along with other mines, to avoid a nationwide coal strike. After increasing its labor costs to meet a War Labor Board recommendation, the Government ran into a streak of bad luck with Pewee and began losing money. Pewee sued in the court of claims, was awarded $2,241.26, the amount of the increased labor costs. Last week the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision upheld Pewee...
...worried about playing the Indians at Hanover, before the partisan Green Key weekend crowd. As he pointed out, the away-game factor should mean little since almost-ideal travelling conditions have been arranged. The 20-man squad will be able to practice at home this afternoon and still avoid a tiring Saturday bus trip by leaving Cambridge at 6 p.m. today...
...Fort Wayne, Ind., a United Air Lines DC-3 swung off its course to avoid an electrical storm. A few moments later, cruising in turbulent air, it went out of control at 1,000 feet, crashed to the ground, burst into flames. Dead: all aboard -eight passengers, three crew members...
...propaganda: "The great fertilizer, for artificial convictions, is the appeal to irrelevant interests. You must maintain religion, because it is good for morality and for commerce; you must keep up sports to avoid dissipation and ill health; you must raise armies to avoid war. But if really good only for such purposes, you would have only a sham army, sham sports, and a sham religion...