Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City that labor would enter the coming year's collective bargaining "mindful of our broad economic and social responsibilities." Did this declaration mean that Reuther would urge his fellow labor leaders to refrain from pushing wages up during an economic lull, so as to avoid increasing business costs and consumer prices? Did it mean that, since labor's overall output per man-hour has increased very little over the past two years, labor would concentrate on upping productivity rather than wages in the year ahead...
Perhaps Powell and Pressburger wanted to avoid making a hero out of yet another German war leader. They certainly succeed, but they do not make the English officers involved in the battle any more interesting. Under Powell's and Pressburger's direction, Anthony Quayle and John Gregson, as two of these officers, are kept so busy holding their upper lips stiff that they appear more like dummies than human beings. Some unusually inept editing and excruciatingly poor sound recording do not much help their performances...
...trip through the Republican State Department was marked with good intentions on both sides. But the final outcome, whoever was at fault, could hardly contribute to the success of the NATO conference. No sooner had Stevenson issued his refusal than NATO observers in Europe, figuring he was trying to avoid again being associated with failure, began reading into it a sign that U.S. expectations for the Paris sessions were gloomy...
...replace the Eisenhower Doctrine's standing offer of help against Communist aggression in the Middle East, but would supplement the doctrine's deterrence with "positive" peacetime aid. By including all O.E.E.C. countries-four of them (Austria, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland) not members of NATO-the plan would avoid identification with NATO or with the Baghdad Pact, both primarily military alliances and both widely disliked in the Middle East...
...easy to escape. So long as homosexual offenses between consenting adults are criminal and punishable by law, the pressure of this kind of freemasonry will remain and will operate powerfully, for it gains strength from the fact that it must remain a secret society to avoid the law. Into this kind of nightmare world-for it is a nightmare world-there can be no entrance for the forces of righteousness until . . . they are delivered from the fears, the glamour and even the crusading spirit of the rebel against law and convention who claims to be a martyr by persecution...