Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...H.U.E.R.A. was formed in the spring of 1937. This new union, which was careful to avoid "union" in its title, included maids, janitors, engineers, polles department, H.A.A. employees, laboratory workers, and bakers--it has a total membership of over 1000 members...
...order to avoid mass purchases of this nature, the council will attempt to decide if it would be practical to limit the number of tickets each person...
...There are long trenches at the back of the hospital and church . . . I felt our religious U.S. flyers had tried to avoid bombing and shelling toward the church tower. Most of the houses were burned down, except the houses around the church building in this village...
...amended plan may actually persuade many men to take their service before college to avoid the trouble the new regulations entail. By writing in the amendments, the Committee hopes to end the objection that there will be discrimination in favor of the man with good education and background, men who can pass the test with a high score...
...Trytten plan may disappear now that it has been amended. The new clauses that make men liable for college years, take away some of the advantages to the college student that may have existed before. Of course, a future Congress might change back a rule, and some men could avoid service. "I would not favor this plan at all," Bender said, "unless I thought all would serve at some time or other...