Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fakir, whose real name is Harry von Wickede (he claims Swiss parentage and studied yoga in India), had left one hand free-partly to avoid the blasphemy of complete duplication of the crucifixion, partly to smoke mentholated cigarets (three packs a day) and to drink countless bottles of soda pop. The table had a built-in toilet...
This week a corrected letter went to Congress. The President still wants it made clear that the U.S. will avoid debts in the World War I sense of the word. But this country would expect its allies to return the aid in goods and services "so far as they possibly could." Lend-Lease is still lent, still leased...
...Tactical necessity may compel us once and again to give up something on some front in this gigantic fateful struggle, and to avoid some particular threat, but it will never break the ring of steel that, forged by the homeland and maintained through the heroism of our front, protects the German Reich...
Offering his discovery to U.S. poultry-men, Lorenz had a word of warning: if the consumer should swallow an unconsumed hormone pellet with his chicken, it might make him sick. To avoid this, he suggested that the pellets be implanted in a part not usually eaten, i.e., the neck...
...office of the Minister of Information-by a clause so elastic that the Minister can always disclaim control of BBC-BBC is theoretically not controlled by the Government. It is theoretically not a private monopoly, either, but a public corporation chartered by Parliament. BBC can therefore, theoretically, avoid the fixed opinion of public, the commercialization of private monopolies. The result of this compromise between white and black is occasionally brilliant, usually a monotonous grey...