Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long ago a parade of witnesses before a Congressional investigating committee were using the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions about their past Communist activities. Afterwards a number of those witnesses suffered a loss in public esteem. In a few cases they suffered concrete injury because their former employers didn't want to employ them any longer. At this there were loud outcries from a number of people who consider themselves "liberals." They complained that the investigating committee had done a dastardly thing simply by asking the questions...
...only outcry we have heard this time about the dastardly action of the committee has come from Dave Beck. Mr. Beck has the right to avoid incriminating himself by his own testimony just as do those asked about subversive activities. We would oppose, as we have opposed in the past, any effort to weaken that right. But Mr. Beck does not have a good reputation guaranteed by the Constitution. That is something a man has to guard for himself...
What 18 nations had sought to avoid, what England and France had fought to prevent, Gamal Abdel Nasser was on the way to achieving. The canal was open and operating on Nasser's terms...
...kind of reverse lever. For shippers were so eager to resume transit that they rushed through without a quibble at his terms. Italian, Greek and West German (as well as Communist) vessels were in the first convoy. The U.S., Britain and France were still "advising" their ships to avoid the canal for the moment while they dickered for better terms...
...Avoiding Excesses. Simon's book drew a supporting protest from Nobel Prize-winning Roman Catholic Novelist Fran-gois Mauriac, followed by a solemn declaration signed by all French Catholic cardinals and archbishops warning "all those whose mission it is to protect persons and things" that "in the present crisis" they "have the obligation to respect human dignity and rigorously to avoid all excesses contrary to the law of nature...