Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile the office seekers maneuvered skillfully to avoid discussing important issus. Scarcely a candidate dared to take a stand on a draft program. The question of anti-inflationary tax hikes was adroitly snubbed by campaigners. Instead of declaring themselves on these matters they attacked each other, in comic books. The campaign was an unpleasant thing for an intelligent citizen to watch. It was not a cheerful commentary on democracy--but now it is over...
Jerome S. Bruner, associate professor of Social Psychology, said that "Taft may win by a nose in Ohio but the important thing there is the disciplined work of labor. They have learned to avoid splinter groups and oppose effectively men with views they dislike...
This famine endangers the Tito regime so that the Marshal will have to import $50,000,000 in foodstuffs if he is to avoid mass starvation in Yugoslavia. He will be forced to cancel a large grain export program with which he hoped to earn money for the purchase of machinery. Discontent is already growing on the countryside; only two weeks ago starving peasants in the village of Selo burned local government headquarters. Similar outbreaks may convince Russia that the time is ripe to bring Yugoslavia back into the Cominform fold by getting rid of Tito and the Titoists...
...order to avoid hunger and unrest this winter, Tito has asked the United States for assistance. In fact he said in a speech to a Yuogslav Women's Congress Sunday that this country was already giving aid to Yugoslavia "favorable consideration...
...pioneers, trail-breakers, etc., we are not seeking statues or even plaques for ourselves But we would like to avoid oblivion for another year or so. Moreover, the Plan is a good one, well worth continuing in times when lawyers are in increasing number convinced that the narrow view of the law will not suffice if the rule of law is to survive; and it did not take ten years to produce a graduate. Charles O Porter...