Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter to a friend about recent European plane crashes. "Almost 100% of these crashes are on scheduled runs. Why? Because they must run-or at -least they think so. The charter services delay if necessary, and get a bad name-from the public for delays. But they appear to avoid these crashes (touch wood!). . . ." Spencer's wood was inefficacious. When he was killed he was flying a charter party, not a scheduled airline run.* Princess Sibylle...
...last week there were indications that both labor & management were trying hard to avoid the mistakes that sent wages chasing prices in an exhausting spiral last year. Economists thought that, barring the shock of sudden industrial upheaval, the inflationary crisis had passed. Labor knew that falling prices were already pumping new buying power into existing wage scales...
Alice Adams, besides, was probably Tarkington's best effort to tell "the truth and mystery of human nature." His account of Alice's emotions and behavior during a saunter down a street in spring, of her exhausting stratagems to avoid seeming snubbed at a dance, had a precision and pathos more than worthy of the writer whom Tarkington regarded as his master, William Dean Howells-almost worthy of Henry James. But why was this novel as a whole inferior to Howells, James or Edith Wharton, and why has Tarkington never been thought a strong figure among U.S. writers...
...Whether it wants to or not, a party possessed of a President must stand or fall on his record. If it nominates another candidate, primarily to avoid the record of its incumbent, it is licked before it starts. The opposition won't forget the record; neither will the voters...
...minutes later, greeted by a standing ovation, Nenni's round, smiling face emerged from behind the carnations. In a grey chalk-stripe suit with a tan shirt and a red silk tie, carefully disarranged to avoid any appearance of bourgeois neatness, he spent two hours and twelve minutes in passionate exhortation. As Nenni's voice rose & fell in practiced intonation, while he raised a warning finger, clenched his right fist, grandly embraced Congress in widespread arms, or modestly spread his long, strong fingers against his chest in a self-effacing gesture, men & women stared seriously and intensely, many...