Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Eisenhower, always reluctant to take a hand in politics on a partisan, partywide basis, would be even less likely to help in the next two years. That left Nixon as the functional political head of the Republican Party, yet he would have to walk carefully to avoid stepping out of line with Ike, whose good will he would need now more than ever...
...campaign met with protests and occasional violence, it was not until the government tried to extend its policy last month to the big city of Johannesburg, that it found it had seriously underestimated the power of the women. The black women of Johannesburg adopted an unusual strategy: not to avoid arrest but to welcome the chance to overcrowd the jails. Morning after morning, they would board buses in the suburbs, some carrying umbrellas, others carrying babies on their backs, and head for the grimy brick building that houses the pass office. There they would chant, "Sera sa motho ke pasa...
...high Administration official wanly predicted last week, a deficit looms for fiscal 1960. With the costs of national defense, welfare programs and farm subsidies edging ever higher, budget makers will find it tough to hold 1960 spending below the current year's $80 billion mark, tough to avoid a deficit of about $5 billion. Fondest Administration hope: by the time President Eisenhower submits his fiscal 1961 budget in January 1960, he will once again be able to point to a balanced budget...
Noodle shops throve on the celebration. Bunting and streamers festooned Taipei. And to avoid the well-wishing crush, Nationalist China's-Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek went off to his Sun Moon Lake retreat, passed a quiet 72nd birthday...
Last week, in a humbler mood, the Post ran another editorial about Tycoon Wolfson. Asserting that it was doing so to avoid expensive and protracted litigation, the paper announced it was contributing $25,000 to a Wolfson charity, the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville. "On his part," said the Post, "Mr. Wolfson is withdrawing the suit without any payment...