Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reminder. In Portland, Ore., Mr. & Mrs. Roger Clark were saved from a plunge over a 50-ft. embankment when their car struck a sign: "Drive carefully and avoid accidents...
...underground Haganah during most of World War II, urged a speedup of immigration, including refugees from Communist-dominated Eastern Europe. Last week, two ships sailed from a Bulgarian port for Palestine with 15,000 Jewish refugees (including, said a London "authoritative source," Communist fifth columnists). The Jewish Agency, to avoid trouble, tried to stop the sailing. Promptly leftist Sneh resigned. Cried he: "The infamous Anglo-American intervention . . . plans to betray and subjugate us. I disagree with my colleagues...
...John Reed, Floyd Dell, Artist Art Young and other idealistic radicals joined the Masses to help their bright socialist dream come true. Suspended for opposing America's entry into World War I, the Masses reappeared in 1918 as the Liberator. In 1926 it became New Masses, pledged to avoid "political affiliations or propaganda obligations." As late as 1936 it could get, for little or no money, such writers as Dreiser and Dos Passes, such poets as Millay and William Rose Benet, such artists as Gropper and Groth...
...most vulnerable to attack as being a political instrument. But if the $40 tax cut is intended to be a vote-attracting mechanism, it also provides a means by which the Democrats can oppose the type of tax cuts advocated by the Republicans and at the same time avoid being put in the position of opposing tax cuts of any kind...
...recorded 7,036 of them. In the 20 more years they expect to spend on the study,† he and his associates will add 88,000 histories, publish eight other volumes. Their first book is based on interviews with 5,300 white males. Answers were recorded in code to avoid embarrassment, and tabulation by punch cards made the work easier...