Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some may say to avoid spread of the conflict into an all-out war with China. Others, to avoid Soviet intervention. Neither explanation seems valid, for China is already engaging with the maximum power it can commit, and the Soviet will not necessarily mesh its actions with our moves...
...regular navy men will go on a compulsory two-year tour of duty after June. Men in the reserve, in order to avoid being drafted while in college, have agreed to serve two years upon commissioning if fighting continues...
Over nine hundred girls at Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley last week received pamphlets in the mail warning them to avoid bi-sexual reproduction and to conceive a perfect child through "cultivating a pure heart...
...avoid involving MacArthur in further controversy, suppose that the mythical General Legion (who got fired a few paragraphs back) and Captain Harry Truman each applied his strategic principles to the aggressions of the 1930s...
Clark said large companies don't usually turn a man down because he is likely of be drafted or called up from the reserve. The companies want to make sure they have plenty of trained young men when peace returns, he said, and avoid the shortage they suffered after World War II. In 1940, he recalled, draft eligible students had trouble finds jobs...