Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strikes this reader as rather strange that only in the company of multimillionaire corporation presidents and other assorted big shots can Ike find the necessary atmosphere for relaxation. Surely there are lesser citizens who would avoid discussing government crises. The implication is plain: Ike is afflicted with that all too common disease of successful men-snobbery...
...Spell out "thoroughly, carefully and precisely" the authority of the House Un-American Activities Committee, to avoid a duplication of the court opinion that reversed the contempt-of-Congress conviction of Labor Organizer John Watkins (TIME, July1...
...Minister and Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, only other visible candidate. This week, with typical political canniness, Quadros planned to board a freighter to Japan (54 days around the Cape of Good Hope) on a trip that will keep him away for three months-enough to avoid excessive pre-election exposure, enough to guarantee him a triumphal welcome when he returns...
...corn, barley, dry beet pulp, dehydrated alfalfa, protein mix, etc. are ground and mixed into eight different types of feed to give the maximum weight gain to cattle at different age levels. In addition to antibiotics and minerals, Farr also adds tranquilizers to make the animals eat more, avoid threshing around and bruising their flesh en route to the slaughterhouse...
...market with the Porkliner, claims that with $112,000 worth of its equipment one man can raise 7,000 hogs a year with only half-day help. The Pork-liner is a hog's country club. The little pigs begin with private rooms, to avoid being stepped on by the sow. A hydraulic lift is used to stack the cages six rows high. Manure falls through the cage bottoms and is mechanically removed to be used as fertilizer. In their whole lives, until they are made into ham, sausages and bacon, the hogs never know weight-killing struggle...