Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ford advised the Congregational-Presbyterian group to avoid a campaign for renewal of University reaffirmation of a "Protestant-Puritan" tradition and to omit "explicit, self-conscious missionary activity." College religious groups can make their greatest contribution by assisting the individual to acquire "a sense of integrity and consistency" during a period of constantly changing values and aspirations, Ford declared...
...report on sex recommended going harder on prostitutes but making homosexual practice involving consenting adult males no longer a crime. In the 14 months since then, with the help of leaders in the opposition Labor Party who feel the same way, Home Secretary R. A. Butler has managed to avoid a parliamentary debate on the subject. Last week, after assuring himself that Laborites were not longing for action now either, Butler rose in the House of Commons to say that one day's debate had been set aside this week to consider the Wolfenden report...
...Stronger efforts should be made to break through the present stalemate and to find ways of living with the Communist nations . . . Our relationship with the Communist nations should combine competition between ways of life with cooperation for limited objectives . . . We should avoid the posture of general hostility to them and cease the practice of continual moral lectures to them by our leaders...
...going to have a pretty rough time trying to avoid" a military outlay hike in the fiscal year starting July 1, McElroy said...
Earlier in the afternoon Judith Rawle '60 fell from her bicycle on Garden Street when she tried to avoid a car making a left turn into Walker Street. The driver was another Radcliffe student, Linda B. Miller...