Word: eschews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sound brilliant in one instance and like a fourth grade beginners group in the next. Both the set and the costumes seem to have come from Gilbert and Sullivan Central Casting, less the fault of the designers perhaps than of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, which seems to regularly eschew creativity in favor of predictable bland productions...
...used to be that there was an easy explanation for this-the existence of the minor leagues. The elaborate pre-majors professional system provoked scores of high school phenoms to eschew their parents' wishes and scam to Cuba, Kansas, or Paris, Texas, to begin blazing their trails to the majors...
...goal were to eradicate "elitism" pense, then why do they engage in practices embodying exclusivity?) Because it is such a small faction, I hope that students do not generalize and assume that such behavior is commonplace within the Undergraduate Council. The majority of Council members, including the present leadership, eschew the fact that a small faction is attempting to splinter our undergraduate government into interest groups...
...They shall bee slow to speak, & eschew not onely oathes, Lies, & uncertaine Rumours, but likewise all idle, foolish, bitter scoffing, frothy wanton words & offensive gestures...
...remainder henceforth will concentrate on economic studies, background investigations of Western & investors and similarly innocuous tasks. General Vadim Kirpichenko, a KGB veteran who is a key adviser to the head of the SVR, says the service intends to behave in a more "civilized" manner and its agents will eschew blackmail, the use of drugs and other traditional techniques employed to compromise and recruit foreign agents...