Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elsewhere, in lesser ways, other colleges and universities have seen the wisdom of cooperating. There is the Farmington Plan, under which 54 great libraries' plan their buying in common to avoid needless competition; the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies, where 24 universities do research together; Chicago's Midwest Interlibrary Center, serving eleven campuses of the Midwest; and Denver's Bibliographic Center for Research, serving the Rocky Mountain states...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For those people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
More out of a desire to avoid bothering the underlings in the dining hall than because of respect for this silly regulation, I've usually made it a point to be "fully clothed" when I eat. Last Wednesday evening, June 7th, I was an inter-house guest at Lowell House. It was a bit warm, I acted like an uncouth beast. I took my coat off. Duty bound, the woman in charge of propriety, etc., came. The old story. I left, unjustly rankled at her (she does what she's told), but, I think, rightfully fed up with this archaic...
...those highly controversial subjects on which everybody has strong opinions. TIME editors are not exceptions. We think that the Russians will go as far as the U.S. will let them. We do not think that war with Russia is inevitable, and we think that the best way to avoid war is by patient and firm resistance to Russian expansion - plus a positive, constructive U.S. world leadership. TIME reports and interprets the news of U.S.-Russian relations in the light of these convictions...
Candy & Oranges. What interested most of the youngsters more than the merry-go-rounds and Communist oratory were the city's Western sectors. But their leaders, obviously anxious to avoid incidents (and the blandishments of the West), had issued strict orders to stay out. A Red directive warned: "Familiarize yourself with the sector limits so that you will not accidentally get into a Western sector." The People's Police watched carefully to see that the kids obeyed the order. Most of the kids were afraid of being seen talking to Americans. Said one to a U.S. reporter: "Please...