Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make their play for global conquest... that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words, that if we lose the war to Communism in Asia, the fall of Europe is inevitable, win it and Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom...
...dozen textile workers vowed that they were so inspired by the executions that they would now step up their production. A Buddhist priest, Chu Tsan, member of the Peking Municipal Consultative Council, was quoted as saying: "To execute these counter-revolutionaries does not contradict the Buddhist command to avoid killing. By executing a very small number of reactionaries, the majority of the people will be saved, and criminals will be deterred from committing crimes. That is good...
...been concerned primarily with the academic side of the college. In a recent public address when the question of finances arose, Wright remarked that he was less concerned with "deficits" than he was with "stagnation." Wright has stated that he is aiming to keep education vigorously alive, to avoid the rut of "academic complacency...
Many a publisher of books and booklets on atomic survival was gaily leading the citizen astray also. One advises shaving cats & dogs to prevent their fur from becoming radioactive; another advises the citizen to throw his money and jewelry away to avoid added problems if it should become contaminated.The most dangerous suggestion: that atomic burns be covered with vaseline or some patent anti-atomic ointment (recommended treatment-covering burns with only a sterile bandage until a doctor arrives...
...point, simply to avoid the incessant heckling of makeup men who complained about the difficulties of shading her "nipple" nose, Barbara went to a plastic surgeon and had it bobbed. "It hurt," she said, "like the devil." The Hollywood payoff came when R.K.O.'s new boss Howard Hughes declared that Barbara had "no sex appeal." "That," said Barbara, "made me mad as hell." After 2½ years and four pictures, she and the studio parted company. "I was fired," is the way Barbara puts...