Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really deserve it. For we are not altogether guiltless, if only in that we have allowed ourselves to be so poorly represented. Surely we ought to take care not to make the egregious mistake of supposing that the issue is one-sided; and we ought scrupulously to avoid letting those lead us or speak for us who have made the imposition of the symbol imperative. Robert E. Gahringer, (Ph.D...
Waiting for the President's plane at Palm Springs were red-faced official greeters: as Ike came down the ramp, windblown sand-not brassy sun-tingled his face, forcing him to bend almost double to avoid the sting. Spirits lifted as the President received a brass putter, welcoming gift from the city fathers of the "Winter Golf Capital of the World" (pop. 15,000). Grinning, Ike brandished the putter, climbed aboard a helicopter to fly 14 air miles to the hastily spruced-up Allen home. The housekeeper, Mrs. Emmet Reed, had opened the three-bedroom stucco bungalow...
...national ambitions: Colorado's McNichols, 45, who is, like Brown (and Washington's Rosellini), a Roman Catholic. In the minds of some McNichols followers, the presidential candidacy of Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy has so focused attention on the Catholic issue that the Democratic Party, if only to avoid the appearance of religious bias, will at least have to nominate a Catholic for Vice President. And if Kennedy and Brown cut each other up too much in the preconvention campaigning, then the call might go to still another Catholic-say Steve McNichols. Indeed, so well defined has the Brown...
Tories had behaved much like the U.S. Republicans of 1948, campaigning decorously on the confident assumption that all they needed to do was to avoid rocking the boat. But unlike Tom Dewey's cohorts, the Tories awoke in time to change their campaign style. "Attack," ordered Tory Chairman Lord Hailsham last week. "Expose the grisly Socialist record. Ridicule their crude pretensions...
...gone in the second quarter, Terrier wing Walt Katuschenko got by Crimson fullback Lanny Keyes and lofted a 25-yard crossing shot overs the arms of Tom Bagnoli to give B.U. a 1-0 lead. Keyes was playing with his right leg heavily taped and with orders to avoid contact. Even so, he was indispensable to the Crimson; Katuschenko was the only man to fool him all afternoon...