Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after another, through the same Manhattan courtroom where Alger Hiss first came to trial, paraded the witnesses in the trial of William Remington, onetime Department of Commerce economist who quit his job last year to avoid being fired. The charge was the same: perjury. Remington had told a grand jury that he had never been a Communist. Behind the formal charge was the same, even graver accusation that Remington had passed on Government secrets to a Red spy ring...
...more than once has been known to beat rowdy followers over the head with a chair. In London last week, Nehru exhibited another specimen from his bulging bundle of contradictions. In one breath, he urged the U.S. to show "sympathy and understanding" toward Communist China, at all cost avoid further conflict in Asia. In the next, he showed no sympathy or understanding whatever in India's long dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir, thereby increasing the likelihood of more bloodshed on the Indian subcontinent...
...fans who made their way to the Bogota bull ring one day last week to see a Mexican troupe of women bullfighters looked forward to nothing more than a mildly diverting afternoon of watching prudent girls avoid listless bulls. Actually, they were privileged to witness one of the high comic moments of Bogota's bullfight history...
...accuse Ilse Koch, the "Bitch of Buchenwald," of brutalities. "Lies, all lies," screamed the red-haired widow of the camp's wartime Nazi commander. She had fits of hysteria, smashed up her cell, had to be carried from the courtroom. Doctors insisted that she was faking to avoid punishment for her crimes. Last week three German judges and six jurymen convicted her of inciting the murder of one prisoner, inciting an attempt to murder another. One of the most revolting accusationsthat she had tattooed prisoners killed so she could have lampshades made of their skin...
...avoid a drying-up of the flow of young men into our colleges in the next three years is a problem for those who have the necessary information on military manpower needs and statistics on the composition of the classes born between 1933 and 1935. How to insure, however, that even after a term of military service, a sufficient number of these young veterans re-enter college is a different question...