Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bohemians: "Avoid what is called the 'ruffianly style of dress' or the slouchy appearance of a half-unbuttoned vest, and suspenderless pantaloons. That sort of affectation is, if possible, more disgusting than the painfully elaborate frippery of the dandy or dude...
...many doctors held out for the advantages of the old-fashioned home visit, pointing out that the family setting tells a great deal about the patient. Nearly all physicians try to avoid calling on obvious cranks, drunks who become remorseful in the middle of the night, and narcotics addicts; nearly all eventually make the call if there is any doubt in their minds as to the urgency of the case...
West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, fearful of domestic repercussions, hoped to avoid any immediate consideration of missile bases on German soil, and told Dulles so. French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau proposed an implied bargain: France would grant IRBM bases if the U.S. would back France in Algeria and support French ambitions to join Britain and the U.S. as NATO's third nuclear power. In Rome the semiofficial news agency Italia reported that "the Italian government does not consider granting of missile bases to NATO a necessary consequence of the international responsibilities Italy has already assumed...
...Sartre, existentialist and sometime Communist sympathizer, turned up garbed in a grey overcoat and moccasins, argued that "one has to distinguish between political crime and terrorism. Terrorism, practiced to inspire fear, despises human life. The political killer demonstrates his respect for human life when he seeks, by killing, to avoid vast slaughter. Remember Charlotte Corday [who stabbed Marat in his bath]. All the French are proud of what...
...liturgy of Madison Avenue, one of the sacred canons is that admen must sincerely believe in and use, at least in public, the products they plug. To avoid any heresy among his agency's 530 toilers, President Arthur Fatt of Grey Advertising Agency (26th ranking, with 1956 billings of $35 million) recently reminded them in a memo that Grey's "clients and their products" are "to be boosted round the clock, wherever we are, whatever we do." In case they missed the point, Fatt thoughtfully attached a checkoff shopping list of his clients' products, including Kolynos toothpaste...