Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shocked, maimed and suspicious of the whites at Oscar's farm, Norman planned to get a job on the railroad, started beating his way through the bush to avoid white men's towns. But the wet season with its cockeye bobs (man-eating storms) turned his plans topsy-turvy. Lost for days, his horses gone, Norman was picked up by a band of aborigines and comforted: "Proper good country dis one. Plenty kangaroo, plenty buffalo, plenty bandicoot, plenty yam, plenty goose, plenty duck, plenty lubra [squaws], plenty corroboree [dancing...
...party is coming in tomorrow. . . . Hear that Lieut. Dunlop has successfully landed on the icecap near Angmagssalik and taken the three remaining kids from the B-17 that went down the 8th of November-one of the kids had amputated both of his feet with a pocket knife to avoid gangrene-golly but we have been most fortunate...
...Washington few die and none resign, if they can possibly avoid it. "Going Washington" is a disease as definite as "going Hollywood." Czars who have been superseded or are being circumvented cling on desperately, loth to give up their places on the fringe of the spotlight...
...Occupying myself with the welfare and interest of the Spanish State, I will endeavor to avoid all evil which may threaten...
...take to 2½% as of Jan. 1, 1942. I.B.M. business multiplied. As 1942 approached its end, President Watson again faced an inevitable, enormous bonanza. He took a drastic step, requested that his extra compensation for 1942 be no greater than in 1939, explaining that thereby he would avoid personal profit from the company's munitions busi ness, of which it had none in '39. (Watson is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.) Result of his abnegations: President Watson received a mere $428,189 from I.B.M. in 1942. Of this, $325,549 was extra compensation...