Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dutch, the principal objectors, wanted the governments to have more of a check on the new body. Said they: "If you try to push governments into the corner and ignore them, you will find that they turn into a group of brooding animals." But even the Dutch wanted to avoid a one-power veto. A likely solution: only a two-thirds vote of the member nations could override Monnet's supranational authority...
...first thing, says the dean, is to ditch class discussion and stick to the lecture method. This places the professor right off in a position of advantage and makes it unnecessary for him to answer questions. "It helps, too, if you avoid the practice of organizing your lecture's," for this will give the impression that "yours is the brilliant, untrammeled mind, of genius...
...living with a sister and working as a laborer for $1.80 an hour, he was surrounded by four FBI agents as he stepped off a bus. They had arrested him at Alabama's request; it is a federal offense for fugitives to cross state lines to avoid imprisonment...
Many of the film's good points are curiously bound up with its faults. By some elaborately contrived plotting, the Charles Schnee script has taste enough never to allow the voice of God to be heard on the sound track (though it cannot avoid letting the actors quote Him at second hand). It also sensibly refrains from letting the radio pronouncements touch off a spree of miracles. While trying to pave the way to heaven with good, nonsectarian intentions, it winds up as a naive theological hodgepodge, finally flattens its concept of God into a fuzzy, sentimental pantheism...
...Only a Smoke Machine." Acheson was firm but informal, careful to avoid the impatience he often shows with critics. When someone suggested that where there was smoke there must be fire, Acheson was ready with an anecdote from an ex-Navy officer, who told him: "In the Navy I learned that where there is smoke, there is often only a smoke machine...