Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still confident that the U.S. economy will soon turn upward, still determined to avoid desperation moves that might bring on a red-ink torrent for years to come, President Eisenhower was nonetheless deeply concerned about the human dislocations of the recession...
Studio One in Hollywood: As a chronic stutterer who masqueraded as a deaf mute to avoid speaking, Fledgling Actor James MacArthur, 20, turned The Tongues of Angels into one of the best hours of Studio One since the rating-rickety show deserted Manhattan for Hollywood last January. The adopted son of Actress Helen Hayes and the late Play-Mright Charles (The Front Page) MacArthur, young MacArthur caught the withdrawn dignity and explosive rage of a troubled teen-ager who was befriended and helped by a farm girl (Margaret O'Brien). His acting persevered over a plot that did wonders...
...session began, Judge Don Young told the defendants that they could avoid punishment if they obeyed the order (two other sets of Amish parents obeyed last month, turned a boy and a girl over to the children's home, let them go to school). Replied stocky, 46-year-old John Hershberger: "I couldn't give up my son. It is against my scriptures.'' Defendants
...fish. Though not fashioned on such a preconception ("This interpretation was made after the design"), the shape honors an old symbol* that early Christians, pushed underground for their heretical beliefs, defiantly scratched on the walls of the Catacombs. Harrison's main purpose in using the design was to avoid inner supports and thus provide an unimpaired view. The sloping walls of the sanctuary, which is 60 ft. high at its peak, support each other; the principle is the same as that which causes a piece of firm paper to stand when it is creased and placed on edge...
...recession," said McDonnell, is "probably about half over. It will be short-lived if we avoid getting panicky and rush in to do too much, too soon." The one major problem to solve is prices-they must come down. "This recession is going to be cured primarily in the market place, not on Capitol Hill." In order to speed it along, "the best things would be for labor and management to get together and declare a truce on higher wages and prices until this thing is over." The Government can be of some help, though such highly publicized recession cures...