Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experiences in the last football season, when the team was continually plagued by injuries, should silence every critic. This walking around is exactly what we want to avoid. Physical exertion and dangerous injuries go hand in hand. Strained ankles, pulled sinews, Charley Horse, water on the knee, scuffed shoes, groin trouble and dislocated hips are the price that the Members pay for our perverse negligence in making them walk from place to place. J. P. C. Train...
...prepared by the Western defense ministers at The Hague had been ambitious, but expensive. When the Western finance ministers cried that the required military expenditures would wreck Western Europe's recovery program, the U.S. suggested-as it often had before-that one way of saving money was to avoid duplication of defense tasks...
...university; read philosophy, history and the classics; ride horses. Women: go to Europe; learn the French and English languages; study architecture and modesty." From Author-Professor Henry Steele Commager (America in Perspective): "Keep an open mind and an experimental attitude . . . Don't be perfectionist. Avoid the doctrinaire and the purely theoretical . . . Damn the absolute...
...Association of American Universities last week asked educational institutions to avoid investment practices that could be interpreted as taking improper advantage of tax exemption privileges. The association, however, contends it is entirely proper for an educational institution to buy a business and then lease it back to the seller...
Many of the new rules are ambiguously worded, and could be misinterpreted by either side. But they follow closely the sensible recommendations drawn up by representatives of organizations last month, and avoid the red tape and the reiterations of federal, state, city, and parietal laws which filled the earlier Council plan. A simpler, more liberal approach is the result...