Word: shun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ball. You must name the ball you want to pocket and the pocket you are shooting for. If you make your shot and knock in some extra balls you may count them too. All other pool games-cowboy, rotation, kelly-are variations of this Green game, but experts shun them. Very serious and sleek in his neat tuxedo, his dead-white face immobile as plaster in the strong light, his oiled hair shining like paint, Ralph Greenleaf made run after run. Once he annoyed Rudolph who, having just missed his 24th shot, complained that Greenleaf had disturbed him by walking...
...tactics. They dropped all charges against nine defendants, including the three women involved and six natives of North Carolina. Against the seven remaining defendants-four of them Northern Communists-the charge of first-degree murder was dropped and with it the shadow of the electric chair which juries shun. In Elizabethton, across the border in Tennessee, officials of the American Bemberg and Glanzatoff mills, where labor troubles began last spring simultaneous with the Carolina strikes, got the employes to cast anonymous ballots for or against another strike, to test the sentiment. They reported 2,883 votes against striking...
...highest they can hurry back to the normalcy their self-imposed psychoanalysis interrupted. For this introspection should prove the sole lapse in the life of an otherwise healthy New Hampshire extravert. Remembering to respect the local chief of police, to elect Biblical History next semester, and to shun the study of physics like poison, Dartmouth men can get back to their favorite topic, women, women, women. When it is recalled how far up in the woods Hanover is, the sons of Eleazer may be forgiven this last innocence...
...shun the merry cavalier...
Albany's Dutchmen are leisured: they have no need of tabloids. They are retiring and shun society columns. Screaming headlines are monstrosities no less offensive than the maunderings of Dorothy Dix. Most newspapers would flutter uncomfortably on their trim, brown doorsteps...