Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, while the thieves were in the room, Wessels' telephone rang. Neumann went to answer it and surprised the youths, who then seized their loot and rushed past him, into a waiting car. They threw the records from the car window to avoid detection, but were soon picked up by Cambridge Patrolman David F. Cotter for "acting suspiciously...
Determined to win the return of the eleven men-dead or alive- the U.S. decided again to hold back public release of the damning evidence. Instead, the State Department privately confronted the Russians with the recording, hoping that the Soviets would settle the incident quickly to avoid worldwide condemnation. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy tried it first, called Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov into his Washington office. "Smiling Mike" refused to listen to the recording, but Murphy handed him a Russian transcript. Result: silence...
...intensity of passions on both sides of this schism has been such that those who wish to have a real impact on public education must avoid the controversy completely, couching their suggestions in practical rather than ideological terms. Such is the form of the Conant Report...
Despite popular rumor, you need not be a budding Shakespeare or prodigious newsgatherer to become a member of the CRIMSON. Anyone with a glimmer of interest and a potential talent for making or developing pictures can avoid the treadmill of the news and editorial competitions by becoming a CRIMSON photographer...
Hoping to avoid any antilabor tag, Nixon and Secretary Mitchell (who urged the committee, boosted Nixon for chairman) are planning to look into all cost-push factors, not just rising wages. Example: in the featherbed-ridden construction industry, a sure target for investigation, the committee will delve into such nonwage matters as outmoded building codes and novel, cost-cutting house designs...