Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Youth Board believes in allowing gangs to remain intact because they provide a juvenile sense of security and comradeship. The board distinguishes between "bopping" (attacking) gangs and defensive gangs that fight back only when attacked. Youth Board workers "mediate cools" (arrange truces) between gangs, get them to agree to avoid one another's proscribed "turf" (territory...
...soldiers together in the first place (TIME, June 9), returned from a flying trip to France "to see my sick daughter," full of penitence for his earlier fiery criticisms of De Gaulle's Cabinet. He unctuously proclaimed: "Unity behind General de Gaulle must be complete . . . We must avoid creating obstacles which can only disturb General de Gaulle...
Like many a health worker before him, Dr. Pinotti knew that the barbeiros flourish in the cracks of dirt-poor Brazilians' mud huts. The famed-Textbook of Medicine, edited by Manhattanites Cecil and Loeb, says flatly: "Prophylaxis consists in constructing houses so as to avoid cracks in the walls." Easier said than done. But Dr. Pinotti, once a poor boy in Sáo Paulo, had an idea: "One night when I was brooding over the problem, I remembered the ovenbird's nest.* As a boy, I used to throw stones at their nests, but the nests never...
...with setting-up exercises. Swedish massage and a bowl of yoghurt. Mr Five Per Cent was a health faddist, and for a time lived on a massive diet of carrots washed down with turnip juice. His father had lived to 106. and Gulbenkian fully expected to reach 120. To avoid dust, he sat only on leather cushions, slept on a leather mattress, and had the air of his Paris mansion filtered through silk screens and fine sprays of water. He reduced his handshake, proffering only the index and middle fingers. For reasons known only to the great mystery...
...that they were met. Result: Calship produced 467 ships worth a billion dollars. Since World War II's end he has taken over and built up a onetime iron works into the Joshua Hendy Corp., which operates a fleet of 40 to 50 tankers and cargo ships. To avoid conflict of interest with his AEC job, McCone has agreed to resign from Hendy and dispose of conflicting business holdings...