Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wreckage and, more important, for information concerning the eleven airmen still unaccounted for. If the airmen were dead, the Soviets would have no reason to hide the fact. If they were alive, were the Russians holding them hostage? Or were they at large in the Armenian hills, attempting to avoid capture, hoping to make it back across the Turkish frontier...
...ruling was brought about by and is the answer to the violence built up a year ago in Faubus' wild bid for political power. This year the South's defense is one of legal stratagems. And though both federal and state governments are pledged to avoid violence, few could doubt that the cause of integration is far worse off than it was last year...
...freshly signed, they had the power of law. Then he called in the press and read his announcement in a flat, tense voice: "Acting under the powers and responsibilities imposed upon me by these laws, I have ordered closed the senior high schools of Little Rock, in order to avoid the impending violence and disorder which would occur, and to preserve the peace of the community." Under another law Faubus proclaimed a school-district referendum for Oct. 7 on whether the schools should be integrated and reopened. Of the three white high schools in Little Rock, only Central has attempted...
...year's first Monday is a big day for all those with the wisdom to avoid Saturday classes. Early-rising auditors with a taste for genuine esoterica can begin their morning in the Robinson Seminar Room where Architectural Sciences 253 takes a full two hours to probe the mysteries of Reinforced Concrete, a three part course examining the respective problems of slabs, beams and columns. Those foregoing breakfast may prefer a broadening hour in Pierce 226, during which the theoretical chemistry of coagulation, corrosion, and sludge digestion are surveyed in Engineering 271a, guaranteed to make undergraduates flush with excitement...
Thus, depth in the line will probably tell the tale. If the Crimson can avoid damaging injuries, especially up front, the varsity could find itself in the Ivy League's first division; if not, there'll be many a sad Saturday afternoon in the Stadium this fall...