Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord Provost of Glasgow protested that Hess brought Glasgow so much publicity that his presence there might well bring on an air raid. > In Rio de Janeiro a Swiss druggist named Rudolf Hess grabbed an airliner to avoid importunate newsmen and photographers. > Mrs. Emma Hess Upchurch of Bristol, Va., a sister-in-law, was proud that her boy Gustave Adolf Hess Jr. is a U.S. Army volunteer. > Several U.S. organizations tried to forward firearms to fork-wielding Farmer David McLean. > In Cairo, Hess's old nurse was sure he was not crazy. > One newspaper report leered that Hess...
...heavy machinery and instruments. To fix a broken Navy power shovel, Illinois' Buda Company recently air-expressed a 750-lb. Diesel engine crankshaft 7,826 miles to Wake Island in the Pacific; Aluminum Co. of America rushed 1,207 lb. of aluminum from Pittsburgh to California to avoid an aircraft production...
...confess ("To have laid out a Rubashov meant the beginning of a great career") were GPU Inquisitors Ivanov and Gletkin. Ivanov had been Rubashov's former schoolmate, former battalion commander. He drank, he doped a little, "but the vice of pity I have up till now managed to avoid. The smallest dose of it, and you are lost. . . . The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan...
...Manila are adequately fortified. Invasion of Japan would not be necessary and the Nipponese Navy, to escape being bombed out of the Inland Sea, would probably have to fight a decisive full-dress battle- which Journalist Hauser, no naval expert, insists high Japanese naval officials would seek to avoid...
...pamphlet, one of a series including "The Second Coming of Jesus," and "Dangerous Bathing Suits," declaimed: "Much of the present-day dancing has a direct sexual appeal: Avoid it if you would keep pure...