Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Study or Serve. Under the plan, every student in the U.S. would take an aptitude test. In practice, if a high-school student scored in the upper 25%, he would get deferment and qualify to go on to college. To avoid favoring the sons of the well-to-do, the educators recommended that federal scholarships be provided for poor boys who qualified. In college, the student would have to keep his grades high each year, or the draft would...
Finally, after a stormy cabinet session, Scelba triumphed; his plan was okayed. The new civil defense corps, with units in each Italian community, would (by official definition) "protect the population in times of calamity." In order to avoid the parliamentary squabble that would inevitably accompany the establishing of a new agency, the government simply put the new force under an existing agency-appropriately enough, Italy's Directorate of Fire Fighting...
When the Student Council reconvenes tonight, it should try to avoid the error which has consistently hurt its predecessors. This error was the failure to plan and announce a comprehensive program at the beginning of the College Year. The result of this annual mistake was that group after beleaguered group got bogged down with more work than it could possibly handle. To avoid the inefficiency which comes from spreading its efforts too thinly, the Council should commit itself at once to a specific set of carefully selected projects...
What was the Old Mahatma up to? One rumor that swiftly went the rounds (though Rickey kept mum): he was bound for Pittsburgh, to start rebuilding that dismal, last-place disappointment. Rickey took his phone off the hook to avoid questions. A "source," speaking for him as "spokesmen" sometimes speak for U.S. Presidents, announced that, at 69, Rickey wanted to sell out "in order to get a little security in this troubled world...
...H.A.A. will open its Quincy Street doors at 8:30 a.m. this year, rather than at 9 a.m., in order to avoid penalizing students with 9 o'clock classes...