Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried to avoid it at first because it isn't efficient," said Krim coldly. "You cannot hold a population by terror, and we need the population on our side. But we have traitors among us. And we had to answer French repression, too-massacres, tortures, bombardments. This is a hard war, but perhaps that is a good thing. We are building a nation, and we want no gifts. For nothing you get nothing...
...Henceforth he will be allowed to preach only on the specific invitation of a Lutheran church, which he is not expected to seek, since he wants to avoid further trouble for his fellow pastors. But, while he may be a man without a church, he will never be without a flock. He is, in the view of one of his pastors, the most popular man in Hungary today...
...Mentality. For the Guardian, Zorza writes what he likes, travels where he likes. He tries to avoid making predictions: "I attempt to explain what is happening rather than what is going to happen." Still, while explaining what is happening behind the Iron Curtain, Zorza has often found patterns foreshadowing later events. In November 1955, after studying the identities and associations of security officials purged in some trials in Tvilisi, Zorza concluded that onetime Premier Malenkov was in trouble-a full 16 months before he was relieved as Minister of Electric Power Stations and relegated to a job in remote Kazakhstan...
...last 6 ft. of the display island. Libby is even going the competition one better by color-coding its baby foods (yellow for meat, green for vegetables, coral for fruit) so that a housewife can load up in a hurry. The best special displays are big and impossible to avoid, i.e., pyramided in the center of the aisle, thus bringing traffic to a halt...
Sweetness & Lightning. In Pensacola, Fla., when a teen-age boy grabbed the purse of Equillar Adams, 65, she lit out after him, was so close on his heels after three blocks that he threw down the purse to avoid capture...