Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obvious attempt to discredit Secretary of State Dulles, Bulganin suggested bypassing a meeting of foreign ministers in the preparations for the summit because of the "biased position" of some foreign ministers. Said Bulganin: "It is hardly necessary to explain why we would like to avoid this." At once U.S. Congressmen and editorial writers began to rally around Dulles with a rare show of strength that fortified the whole U.S. position...
...avoid rush-hour tie-ups on the Potomac River bridges, they boarded a Marine Corps helicopter on the White House south lawn in Ike's first such use of a whirlybird. They touched down 3½ minutes later at National Airport. On the flight out, Columbine Pilot Lieut. Colonel William Thomas learned that the Kansas City Municipal Airport was fogged in, instead put down at the Naval Air Station in Olathe, Kans. Startled Navy officials hastily assembled a motorcade of staff cars, managed to get the President and Milton into a Navy Chevrolet for the 27-mile ride into...
...cover the tests from vantage points (7,900 ft. from the launching pads) that had previously been off limits to the press. In return for these and other concessions, said Yates, newsmen would have to agree to 1) withhold stories based on his briefings until after each firing, 2) avoid pinpointing firing times in advance, and 3) keep "completely quiet" about some "off-record firings [that] will not be newsworthy in the truest sense but would give aid to the enemy if covered in depth...
...wrapping paper, was now a TV control room, sporting a DANGER-HIGH VOLTAGE sign, and sprouting cable everywhere. Fifteen Cuban cops guarded the equipment through the night. Guest Star Mamie Van Doren and Singer Steve Lawrence toiled at synchronizing their lips with songs they had recorded in Manhattan to avoid technical hitches on the Cuban location. Producer Bill Harbach and his staff kept auditioning local talent, came up with bongo beaters, a singing quartet and a dancer named Tybee Afra who hails from the New York borsch belt. At the poolside near Gambler Meyer Lansky's cabana...
...have shown hog-raisers how to take a unit of 33 breed sows, breed eleven of them every two months and over a year deliver 500 hogs to market in six marketings as opposed to the old rate of two per year. Thus, they smooth out seasonal peaks, and avoid gluts that have caused the Government to step in from time to time and buy up pork...