Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more serious than this, the present set-up, as well as all the plans suggested by various administrative officials, presuppose that students are so immature that they can't avoid being "used." This idea always leads to serious finagling with undergraduates' freedom...
This college draft deferment business reaches the height of nauseating absurdity when one looks at photos of thousands of able bodied young men rushing to avoid serving their country. The hokum that this is "deferment" not exemption, falls apart when one think of that long, long campus project known as graduate studies. How long that may go on is anybody's guess! You get deferred now, you take graduate studies when you finish, and then you are 26. Nice soft life! And how much the effete snobs with white canvas shoes need that elbow rubbing with men of ordinary walk...
MacArthur: "Here [in Asia] we fight Europe's wars with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words ... if we lose the war to Communism in Asia, the fall of Europe is inevitable; win it, and Europe most probably would avoid war yet preserve freedom . . . You cannot appease or otherwise surrender to Communism in Asia without simultaneously undermining our efforts to halt its advance in Europe...
...extent of rearmament, and its encroachment on the welfare state. In short Gait-skell's budget said that Britain had to make some sacrifices of living standards and social services in order to rearm. Bevan & Co. insisted that social services must all take precedence over defense. To avoid this very clash, Attlee on Jan. 18 had moved Bevan from Minister of Health to Minister of Labor...
...quiet the uproar, General Juin last week postponed taking over his command of the Western European land forces under General Dwight Eisenhower at SHAPE. Juin, planning to fly back to Morocco, was still confident that he could bring the Sultan around, hold Morocco for France, avoid a national insurrection which would be a danger to the Atlantic pact. The dialogue would continue...