Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King's speech (written by the Cabinet) at the opening of a new session of Parliament, the proposed bill was explained as a measure "to defend full employment, to ensure that the resources of the community are used to best advantage and to avoid inflation." Said Opposition Leader Winston Churchill: "It seems to me that this vague language for giving all kinds of tremendous powers to the executive ... goes further than anything I have seen before. This is not planned economy. This is a blank check." Replied Prime Minister Attlee: "I am quite sure that any government would find...
...majority of Americans I met socially I found to be childlike, equipped with rather more than the usual number of national and personal prejudices, inclined to assess all things-motor-cars and nations-with an uneasy blend of emotion and economics. I found that they tended to avoid standards based on intellect. They did not seem to be very good at thinking, largely, I suppose, through lack of practice...
Since then, A & P says that it has abolished Acco's double role. It has also leaned so far backward to avoid selling below cost that even its fiercest rivals now concede that they can frequently undersell A & P. In New Orleans last week, Independent Grocer John Schwegmann, who runs a thriving supermarket, said: "I started on a shoestring right down the street from the A & P supermarket and I have done all right. I consider them the fairest competition I have...
...other sketches round out Orwell's autobiographical reminiscences. A Hanging is a stark glimpse of a Burmese criminal who, as he walks to the gallows, steps aside to avoid a puddle. This instinctive human reaction overwhelms Orwell with "the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide." How the Poor Die is a severely underwritten memoir of Orwell's stay (as a pneumonia patient) in a Paris ward in the '20s, which leads him to the wry conclusion that "it's better to die violently...
Meyer, honorary president of the United World Federalists, added that the U.S. must stress world federation as the goal of containment in order to avoid another world...