Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must set our sights toward achieving another New Deal," he said, "and paradoxically enough, while we're doing it, we must clearly avoid embracing the two myths which are anathemas to progressives today--the indispensability of the Democratic machine, and the indispensability of the Communist party. Let's not support party hacks--and let's not succumb to those great abiding tactics of intellectual terrorism practiced by the C.P.U.S.A...
...alcoholic? Alcoholism, answer psychiatrists, is a symptom of mental disease, and thus chronic drinking in many cases may be as unavoidable and blameless as catching a cold. But last week a Pennsylvania court, in a case involving alcoholism, contradicted the psychiatrists' view, argued that a man can avoid becoming an alcoholic if he wants...
...perfect solution, then, is for exactly the right number of men to appear each minute. Impossible as this plan obviously is, it leads to the second-best answer of spreading the load evenly by trying to avoid the rush hour. In the case of supper, while the line is at its heaviest when the doors open at 5:30 o'clock, the rush has been created by just such an attempt, on a universal basis, at arriving when nobody else is eating But at breakfast, when the peak is at 8:30 o'clock, lines could be shortened considerably...
This was a reversion to the policy the U.S. had followed in the days of the Barbary corsairs, and a complete reversal of 20th Century peacetime practice, when U.S. naval forces had made only occasional cruises and courtesy calls in the Mediterranean. To avoid the need for billeting sailors ashore, the Navy decided to rotate its Mediterranean units twice a year...
Moviemakers could avoid audience confusion by sticking to a few simple, basic assumptions: either a ghost can always get through a closed door without any bother, or he should have trouble in every spook picture...