Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each of us now proves himself worthy of his countrymen fighting and dying in Korea, then success is sure . . . "Each of us must do his part. We cannot delay while we suspiciously scrutinize the sacrifices made by our neighbors, and through a weasling logic seek some way to avoid our own duties. If we Americans seize the lead, we will preserve and be worthy of our own past ... It is not my place as a soldier to dwell upon the politics, the diplomacy, the particular treaty arrangements." He was merely an individual "with some experience of war and peace...
...avoid such a situation? "The hope . . . lies in ... the Third Force . . . playing for time, and . . . doing what we can to avoid an absolutely clear-cut division of the world into two hostile armed camps-which is precisely what the Americans seem bent on bringing about...
Clarence Barnhart was so fed up with dictionaries that he decided to put together a new one of his own. He was quite clear about what he wanted to avoid: out-of-date talk and learned impenetrability in general. It infuriates him, for instance, to see agate defined as "a variegated chalcedony, having its colors arranged in stripes." That sort of definition, says he, is like "thrusting calculus at a fellow who has only a learning of algebra...
...began an investigation of four Sanitation Department unions. The city council considered a law which would force policemen to give 30 days' notice before retiring-and thus prevent their resigning to avoid testifying without immunity before a grand jury...
Austin has paraphrased the gist of Haldane's remarks in these words: "If you are walking down a street and you move aside, just a bit, to avoid jostling a neighbor-what made you move aside? Was it a law that forced you to move? No. You had simply learned to exercise your own independence without disturbing your neighbor. That is the higher ethics...