Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout this maneuvering, President Sukarno, a manipulator of impressive skill, has remained affable and, for him, remarkably silent. He neither interferes with Nasution's moves nor publicly backs them, and therefore can take credit if things go well and avoid blame if they fail. As for 40-year-old General Nasution, an enigmatic soldier, he remains a man who has never, by word or gesture, shown sign of wishing to overthrow Sukarno. If the army's "middle way" works, there would be no need...
...general direction of the jet stream is from west to east; jetliners flying westward will usually pick their courses and altitudes to avoid it. But sometimes the jet stream or the current associated with it loops into a westerly direction. When the charts reveal such a shift, an alert pilot might get a jet stream assist both coming and going...
There is also discussion of beginning this compromise program in the Freshman Dean's Office, to avoid what Dean Monro calls "Little Gold Coasts in the Yard." This difficulty has always existed, and when freshmen move into Wigglesworth again next year, the problem will be even greater, since Wigglesworth used to be the "Gold Coast" of the Yard...
...Corporation has lost a six year battle to avoid trial for an alleged breach of trust in its Administration of the $5 million Arnold Arboretum endowment. John T. Hemenway '46, President of the Association for the Arnold Arboretum, yesterday announced that Attorney General Edward J. McCormack, Jr. had agreed to let certain members of the Association sue the Corporation in his name...
...hired bright young railroad pros. He brought in modern bookkeeping machines and mechanized track-laying equipment, completely dieselized the line. He also became the foremost critic of union featherbedding in rails, trimmed his own payrolls from 26,300 to 18,500-but was a shrewd enough labor negotiator to avoid a full-scale strike...