Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noting the signs and wondering how long Khrushchev dared avoid "tidying up" his internal situation, Columnist Joseph Alsop last week quoted a recent dictum of that old student of the Soviet system, former Ambassador George Kennan: "In the Soviet Union today there are just too damned many people who have been left unmurdered...
...challenge is grim. A person with no sensation in his legs or arms cannot even feel in those limbs the burn of an oven-hot radiator, the pain of a hard fall, the bed sores that breed serious infection-all bad risks that he must be alert to avoid. To stimulate circulation, avoid kidney stones and prevent his joints from locking and his bones from decalcifying, he must somehow rise to a standing position for at least an hour a day, a dizzying feat that is aided at first with a special tilt-table. The patient is also faced with...
Toohy speculated that some students may be removing stickers to avoid being tagged in the current drive against student parking. He emphasized that University police have been recording the license numbers of all cars parked in the restricted area, and sending the numbers to the respective state registries for identification...
Uncertainty. Neither theory is anywhere near being tested. To avoid "sensation," Heisenberg will not even publicly release his equation until next month. But physicists look for much from Heisenberg, head of the famed Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, and often called Einstein's successor. In 1932 Heisenberg won the Nobel Prize for one of modern physics' key laws, "the uncertainty principle," which holds that subatomic events cannot be observed individually without changing them by the very act of observation...
...controversy with other sects. If you feel there is some other way of writing your copy so that the controversial angle will not appear, then we'd be perfectly happy to run it." Is there any field except sectarianism where a great national magazine feels it must avoid a controversial issue...