Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposition of our day is peace, and our common enemy is the war which will deny that peace to us and generations to come. I plead with all who will hear to avoid the final catastrophic failure of war. I plead not for appeasement born of fear, but for honest negotiation, long persisted in until understanding comes...
...describes a group of Scottish college graduates who conspire to liberate the Stone, but are exposed at the last moment. Said jubilant Author Mackenzie last week: "I hope I may have given good advice to the young men who carried out this successful effort and shown them what to avoid ... No patriotic Scot could help having a feeling of elation." Mysterious stickers appeared on Glasgow shop fronts: "Would you keep stolen property in YOUR church...
Isolationism had become a bad word; most isolationists did not like to be called that. "These policies I have suggested," said Herbert Hoover, "would be no isolationism. Indeed, they are the opposite. They would avoid rash involvement of our military forces in hopeless campaigns. They do not relieve us of working to our utmost . . . We shall not fail in this even if we have to stand alone...
...Brigade, and a Silver Star to his son, Captain Sam Walker, a 24th Division combat officer. A three-ton truck driven by a South Korean pulled out of line in a southbound column, directly in the path of Walker's jeep. The general's driver could not avoid a collision. Walker was thrown to the road. He was dead when an ambulance got him to a field hospital two miles away.* Viewing his father's shrouded body, Captain Sam Walker wept. General MacArthur revealed that he had recently recommended a promotion for Walker to the four-star...
...pilot in the cockpit of a jet fighter on a combat mission is a busy man. Besides flying his skittish aircraft, he must navigate, search for ground targets, avoid enemy antiaircraft and watch out for enemy fighters. No pilot has enough hands, eyes and brains to do all these jobs perfectly. Last week the Air Force told how it had teamed up with William P. Lear, winner of the 1950 Collier Trophy for aviation, to take some of the job of flying and fighting the airplane off the jet pilot's neck...