Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fascinated with your Nov. 25 color pictures of the horrible monstrosities we have created to defend ourselves from destruction and to destroy other people who likewise are preparing similar machines to defend themselves from destruction by us. In the frenzied direction we are now headed, to avoid sudden destruction we seem to be preparing to perish slowly, like Laika, in a bigger and better metallic cage...
...Snyder and Sherman Adams decided, for the time, to describe the President's illness to the country as a chill. Their reasons: 1) to permit the doctors to recheck and confirm their diagnosis; 2) to avoid alarming the country and the world in the absence of confirmed findings. White House Staff Secretary Andrew Goodpaster called Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, who was in Paris laying the groundwork for the President's scheduled visit to the NATO Council meeting Dec. 16, to ask him to come back to Washington. When word of the President's illness reached...
WASHINGTON POST AND TIMES HERALD: THE President could safely and advantageously ask Mr. Nixon to serve as acting President during the period while he is incapacitated. It would permit the business of the Government to move forward expeditiously and avoid the confusion and stagnation that has occurred during some presidential illnesses of the past. Once it were demonstrated that authority could be shifted to the Vice President on an acting basis and returned to the President without a hitch, future vice presidential candidates would then likely be chosen for their compatibility with the presidential candidate and not merely to lend...
...party's second-ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (after Wisconsin's Wiley). The party and the Government need "younger people," Smith explained. His long-expected decision threatened to bring on the kind of political dogfight that gentle Alex Smith always tried to avoid. Already announced for his seat is boutonniered
...leadership of the West," lamented De Volkskrant of Amsterdam, "is in the hands of a great but sick man who cannot accomplish much more than the purely representative duties of his office." Said a member of Germany's Bundestag: "Can a man who is fighting frailty of body avoid frailty of leadership...