Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avoid spreading excessive cheer, Commerce-Labor pointed out that the silver cloud had a grey lining. Much of the May job increase resulted from a surge of hirings for construction projects that had been delayed by early spring's foul weather; employment in manufacturing, the economy's soft spot, actually declined again in May. And Capitol Hill's bearish Joint Economic Committee predicted last week that the economy will not get back its full pre-recession robustness until mid-1959 at the earliest, and possibly not until late...
...English literature. Where 75 per cent of our high schools offer typing courses, only 40 per cent have school newspapers appearing as regularly as once a month--and some of those are mimeographed. Advertising, shorthand, auto shop, and a half-term of empirical economics teaching you how to avoid being gypped when you purchase an automobile--these are the trade and social courses which compose the high school academic gamut...
While the system enables students to avoid bus fares and go home for lunch, the disadvantage is in the comparatively small size of most of the high schools. In some the average graduating class is under 100 students, and few are over...
Last week as the seasonal rains fell, signaling the start of ant harvest time, Santandereano peasants bolted their spring planting and scrambled as fast as their bare feet would take them to the dune-like ant hills that dot the countryside near the city of Bucaramanga. Stepping lively to avoid the angry swarms of worker ants, they seized the inch-long queens as they emerged, and popped them into hollowed calabashes. The nimblest harvesters caught up to three lbs. of ants in a morning's work...
...scarcely beat; yet British reserve merely muffles several striking similarities in theme and attitude. When Kingsley Amis (Lucky Jim) virtually dismisses politics as a "mug's game," any hipster would reply "Yes, man, yes!" When one of John Wain's characters in Hurry on Down tries to avoid introducing his parents to a friend because he is ashamed of their working-class manner and appearance, there is more than an echo of Sunday Dinner in Brooklyn. When Colin Wilson proclaims that the Outsider "is the one man who knows he is sick in a civilization that doesn...