Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospitality with a formal dinner and reception at the French Embassy. The 64 dinner guests had scarcely done with their sumptuous meal when hundreds of other guests, invited to the reception, started queueing up on the embassy grounds. Only a trickle of guests were admitted at a time, to avoid confusion at the cloakroom. At 11:30, an hour after the doors opened, the queue still-extended for a block. One impatient Senator was heard to mumble: "It is a strange way to wish us to vote the right way for them...
...testimony went, Lawyer Casey's maneuvers seemed perfectly legal and aboveboard, but there were one or two points that made Colorado's Senator Edwin C. Johnson want to look further. One was his suspicion that the tankers were placed under Panamanian registry to avoid heavy U.S. income taxes. Casey and the other stockholders were only required to pay capital gains taxes at the rate of 25% of their profits...
...pilot steers carefully, keeping a dancing dot in the center of the shrinking circle. When the circle (with the dot at its center) gets small enough, he knows that the enemy bomber is within range of his guns. He fires a long burst-and pulls up sharply to avoid a collision. In a real attack in bad weather he may never see the bomber that his guns have destroyed...
VerMeulen closed down to avoid a possible $100 fine or 30 days in jail near his final examination time. He felt that the other was unfair to Yale students none of whom will now be able to get around the standard charge of $1.10 per haircut...
Hall pointed out that schemes to avoid the tax by keeping dinner at 95 cents and increasing lunch five cents more instead, would not work since the transient lunch trade would be reduced. The University, he added, must charge more for supper to break even on that meal...