Word: eschewed
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...anxious for its tax cut, said President Pierson, even if, combined with big appropriations, it resulted in a deficit. President Coolidge's voice rose and rang bitterly as he called this talk "absurd," especially coming from Business men who apparently were unaware that budget law obliges the Treasury to eschew deficits...
...Duke of Connaught has never been a popular figure, even in the Commonwealth. He is much too reserved for that. He has not been popular in the Army. His acid wit prevented that. The measure of publicity, which the remainder of the royal family have never been able to eschew, although they hate it as cordially as does the Duke, he has been able to avoid...
Therefore, please refrain from the slightly tainted title "Newsstand-buyer" ; eschew it; it irks. Let TIME call subscribers Subscribers ; others, Readers...
...this advise to lead Christian lives of temperance, hard-work and worship were not enough. The rules went on to enjoin all students to "eschew all profanation of the God's name," and further, that 'they studiously redeeme the time" and "diligently attend the lectures without any disturbance by word or gesture...
...expedition, Dr. Walter N. Koelz, radioed his first report to the National Geographical Society. Gray jellyfish, he told about; snails with wings; a fish like the bullhead, with ventral suckers for attaching itself to rocks while feeding; rare arctic birds in little-known summer plumage; land plants which eschew stems to snuggle next the ground and escape the wind; sea kelp, whose writhing shapes even Eskimos often mistook for animal life; carpets of wildflowers, luxuriant timothy, gaudy mosaics of lichen, orange and purple, on the black rock cliffs; the maniacal laughter of sky-filling clouds of dovekies (little auks...