Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend and proteégeé, Democrat Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, suffered a humiliating defeat when the House recently voted down a dole-type unemployment-compensation bill approved by his Ways & Means Committee (TIME, May 12). Hopeful of succeeding Rayburn as Speaker one day, Mills was desperately anxious to avoid even the possibility of a similar defeat. But as a longtime supporter of reciprocal trade, he was also anxious to avoid the blame for gutting the Administration bill. He therefore appealed to Sam Rayburn for help in tossing the responsibility back to the Administration...
...react to an approaching plane; with both planes flying at 300 miles per hour (considerably slower than the speed of the jet airliners which will enter service this winter), three seconds means half a mile. In other words, by the time a pilot can adjust his course to avoid another plane, the other plane is upon him. In addition, the controls of a modern airplane are so complicated as to require a pilot's almost undivided attention. He does not have time to watch for other planes, and when he does, his field of vision is necessarily limited...
This action meant that the pilot was "on his own,"and was responsible for avoiding any other planes that might be in the area. Investigators assume that the TWA plane, climbing to avoid the bad weather, came up underneath the DC-7 and hit it. Neither pilot, had he seen what was happening, would have been able to adjust course in time to avert the accident...
...gropes and rummages through his mental stuffings for lucrative answers. The most celebrated face of the moment belongs to Twenty One's crop-haired Elfrida von Nardroff, 32. Last week she screwed up her features, gazed characteristically at a top corner of her glass cage (to avoid seeing her own worried reflection), answered a stickler on 18th century English history.* With that, Elfrida reached 21 points, won the game, and 1) pushed her winnings to $146,000 to become the new alltime female quiz champion, 2) broke the Twenty One record of Quiz Wizard Charles Van Doren (TIME...
...Students," Chandler commented, "have an erroneous opinion of the HSA." He said this "was hurting a lot of HSA's own business. Just because a business is run by students," Chandler stated, "is no reason to avoid...