Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Wendell Willkie at Ripon : the Republican party first came into power because in the Whig party before it "men sought to trim and hedge rather than to face the dangers, or talked trivialities, remaining silent on the basic issues, hoping thereby to avoid offending divergent elements. ... A certain cynicism characterized the politics of the day - a cynicism which has had its parallel in our own time...
Timely. In Manhattan, Arctic Explorer Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson gave detailed instructions on how to avoid death in snowstorms to the annual luncheon of the Blizzard...
Quipped a member: Would the Prime Minister have this proposal translated into Basic? Asked a Scotsman: "Will the Prime Minister see that a clear Scottish pronunciation is used and thereby avoid the fluctuating and irritating noises that are generally made by the English...
...India in October, soon got used to the Burma jungle. From Ledo last month they began their 100-mile circling march to the rear of the Japanese concentrations at Maingkwan, averaging 20 miles a day down crude trails Kachin tribes of Burmese had hacked many years ago. To avoid ambush, greatest terror of jungle warfare, intelligence and reconnaissance squads always patrolled the trails ahead of and behind their columns. Only once were they fooled by a grass dummy which was covered by a Jap machine gun- two men were killed but the lesson was learned...
Said the Secretary to the Senator: "I . . . assure you of my complete agreement with your statement that 'the War Department must be scrupulously careful to avoid the official distribution of partisan or prejudicial material to the Army either at this time or any other...