Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last November's dash toward the Yalu. Ridgway worked his divisions ahead very slowly, sent armored spearheads in front to keep constant contact with the Reds. His offensive moved like a cautious driver going down a hill in second, careful not to lose control and anxious to avoid being hit at an intersection...
...positive side, the picture makes its prosecutor-hero a native son who argues pointedly, as many Southerners do, that the town must clean up its own mess if it wants to avoid interference from Washington and points north. The "outsider" who is killed by the mob is a crusading newsman who works for a paper no farther away than a large Southern city. Though they want to suppress the scandal, the town's respectable citizens are opposed to the Klan...
Following the Saturday night blaze, police would not permit the 75 students in the Hall to re-enter the building in order to prevent looting and avoid injuries. Many found space with friends in other Houses; some, however, had to sleep in hotels...
Nieman Fellow Dana A. Schmidt, who will speak on "Opportunities in Newspaper Work," has been a foreign correspondent for both the United Press and the New York Times. He was the sole American correspondent in Czechoslovakia, until he left the country to avoid arrest a few months...
...express train." When his ruthlessness and a revelation of his mission show her the true nature of Communism (he is working up a Paris purge list against the day when his masters take over France), she shoots him, but merely wounds him. Fyodor is s.ent back to Russia to avoid a scandal, and Hydie gets ready to go back to the U.S. War is about to begin...