Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard; House Plan Unit No. 2 was named Dunster House, after the first President. Coolidge, a mathematician, who bore a rather striking resemblance to President Lowell, would head Lowell House; Greenough, an English professor, would head Dunster. Out of disgust for the group's recent plans, and to avoid any confusing of duties, Coolidge resigned his membership in the Watch and Ward Society the "arbitrators of citizens' morals." The Houses would be Georgian in design, the dining halls would not have student waiters as the Union had, and, although there would be a separate table for the tutorial staff, they...
...Times felt bound to point out editorially: "A banker who invokes the Fifth Amendment when charged with embezzlement will scarcely retain the confidence of his depositors. Labor organizations need not continue to support a labor leader who invokes the Fifth Amendment or any other amendment to avoid accounting for union funds...
...with Molotov, Face the Nation nevertheless last week sent a crew of six to Moscow to begin preparations for a filmed "free" exchange between Khrushchev and several U.S. correspondents in Moscow to be broadcast over 92 CBS TV stations and about 150 radio stations on Sunday, June 2. To avoid the loss of time in translation, Face the Nation's smart and alert Producer Ted Ayers plans to make use of a simultaneous-translation technique like that of the U.N. If Communist Khrushchev does not invoke an eleventh-hour veto, CBS will have achieved a major beat and also...
...fluke misses by the Luftwaffe and the decision of the Rotterdam planning commission to incorporate the beneficiaries of those misses-two surviving buildings-into the pattern of the widened street, making it necessary to bring the building line forward at each street corner. To avoid an L-shaped building, Breuer hit on the idea of letting sculpture take care of the bulge...
...powerless to get information that would have been easily available through U.S. banks. Armstrong's concern for the reluctance of beneficial owners to identify themselves only served to point up another complaint against Swiss banks: an Internal Revenue Service representative told the subcommittee that U.S. investors can easily avoid paying taxes on stock and profits by trading through the Swiss...