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Word: avoider (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a program must be very carefully worked out to avoid ambiguity and to escape incorrect but justifiable answers. For example in number three, the words heat and are necessary to make heat impossible for the answer. It is probably harder to compose such a program than it is to cover the same material in a textbook passage. The machine material must be clear and self-contained, because the machine is the only source, and cannot clarify itself as a teacher...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Psychological Laboratory's Answer To a Teacher Shortage: Machines | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

Glass and limestone facing were used extensively in the planning to avoid giving the buildings "the appearance of large chunks of brick," according to Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson and Abbott, the architects. The living room of each suite will have a broad floor-to-ceiling heavy glass window, and inside walls of rough pumice-stone...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Leverett's 'Twin Towers' Will Open in Fall of 1960 | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

...asparagus" at a dinner party in 1951. They were married at a big Newport blowout (700 guests) in September 1953, have an infant daughter. Although she traveled with her husband during the last campaign ("Some days we would shake 2,500 to 3,000 hands"), Jackie tried to avoid making speeches, prefers a homebody's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: HOPEFULS' HELPMATES | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...their "geographical position" and Soviet "modern military techniques" ensure that "West Germany's drive to the East would be a drive to death." and that West Germany could not "survive one day of modern war." To Walter Lippmann. Khrushchev turned right around and warned the West that, to avoid "suicidal" missile war, the Germans would probably turn to the East instead of the West, as they kid in the days of the Hitler-Stalin pact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pressure at Berlin | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...cellmates mutter and shout, struggle and writhe, and they carry conviction. (If Maharis and his director are unequal to the titanic movement of the "dance which shows Green Eyes trying to go backwards in time" to avoid having committed his crime, it is hard to think of any actor and director who would be capable of it.) But Scott, with his mobile, graceful body, his vaguely West Indian accent, his bland, venomous drawl, has combined his own imagination with Genet's, and made a new creation...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Genet's Deathwatch in New York | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

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