Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view of Latin-American complications, it seemed to be to U. S. advantage to avoid a final settlement, avoid establishing dangerous precedents that might create trouble in the future. Said Walter Lippmann: "No final settlement of any territorial question is remotely in sight. All that is required . . . is an interim working arrangement about the island itself. . . . It is plainly a question where the proper official attitude is to wait in order to see what actually happens in Martinique rather than to draw conclusions from what appears to be happening in Vichy. . . . What we must do . . . to protect our vital interests...
Perennial problem of the Friends, who are militant pacifists, is War. Last week they reaffirmed their pacifism, told young Friends how they could avoid military drill at college,* sent Quaker Paul Comly French to Washington in vigorous protest against the Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill now before Congress...
Altitude Sickness. Above 15,000 ft., fliers must use oxygen to avoid altitude sickness. Fliers who do not use oxygen, and succumb to altitude sickness, do not realize their plight, for oxygen lack, like alcohol, produces an exaggerated sense of confidence. Like drunkards, they are unable to concentrate. Most fliers who are shot down, continued Dr. von Diringshofen, suffer from oxygen lack...
Authors Lavine & Wechsler feel that the only way for Americans to avoid the charms of British dinner music in World War II is to scrutinize every organ of authority and opinion, including the President of the U.S., for propaganda pollution. Most of their book consists of this scrutiny. Anything favorable said about any other nation, particularly the British, is, of course, propaganda...
...Harvard, meanwhile, undergraduates and alumni began their commencement and reunions under agreement (at President James B. Conant's request) to avoid war arguments. They knew well that many an alumnus bitterly resented Harvard undergraduate pacifism. They listened politely to Secretary of State Cordell Hull as he called isolation "dangerous folly" at an alumni gathering, to Class Orator Tudor Gardiner (a Porcellian) as he declared: "America must not again be dragged into the anarchy that is Europe...