Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Internal Revenue Bureau officials in Newark, N.J., began re-checking 800,000 income tax returns. Reason: two women clerks had been flushing returns down restroom toilets to avoid work...
...Washington had taken the lead in the fight for partition, the world looked to it for a solution of the developing conflict. The U.S. Government considered calling for an international force contributed by U.N. members. But that might open the door for Russian participation, which the U.S. wants to avoid. Rather than allow Russian troops a foothold in the Middle East, the U.S. might take on the job itself. Military authorities estimated that at least 50,000 troops would be required; sending such a force in 1948 might create a hotter U.S. political issue than the one Washington tried...
...tricolor sash around his waist, and advanced on the pit heads. They were met by hundreds of Communists and hangers-on (only a few of them local people) who had armed themselves with clubs. After a short scuffle the Abbé Lorent's forces withdrew. "I wanted to avoid bloodshed," he said...
...promises. On the stage, the play owes much of its success to its graceful, believable illustration of how a lonely sergeant and a lonely nice-girl go to bed together. On the screen the young people spend most of their time gracelessly, unbelievably showing how careful they are to avoid just that. The movie is most coyly prurient where the play was most pleasantly candid...
...Leclerc de Hauteclocque) 45, wartime field commander hero of the Fighting French, postwar Inspector-General of the French Army; in a plane crash; near Colomb-Bechar, on the Algeria-Morocco border. Brilliant, dashing, and a master tankman, Leclerc escaped from France in 1940, assumed the nom de guerre to avoid reprisals on his family...