Word: shunned
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...everything from bathing suits to pajamas. The church lots are invariably packed with cars carrying rooftop boats, surfboards, golf clubs and picnic hampers. But the convenience of drive-in services also attracts the sick and disabled, parents with small children who cannot be left home alone, celebrities trying to shun crowds, and many unchurched Christians who just like to meditate by themselves...
...mentioned the possibility of New York's Mayor John Lindsay's being nominated as the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1968. It seems inconceivable to me that the Republican Party would so honor a man who in his own campaign went to great lengths to shun the Republican label. While it is true that such men as Nelson Rockefeller and Charles Percy refused to support Barry Goldwater in 1964, these men disavowed a candidate, not the entire Republican Party. With so many other promising Republicans coming to the front of the political picture, the party will hardly...
Addressing 3,500 guests during the annual Al Smith dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria last week, Ambassador Goldberg enjoined them: "In this debate, let us shun intolerance like the plague. As our sons and daughters would say: 'Let's cool...
...theory, a superintendent or principal is a top teacher who has earned promotion; shoving him aside seems self-defeating, even from the teachers' viewpoint. Yet the best teachers tend to shun administrative chores, particularly detest the humdrum courses in educational administration that many states require in order to qualify for supervisory posts. One result, concedes B. Frank Brown, the innovation-minded superintendent of Florida's Brevard County, is that many administrators are "former coaches, who get by with a pitch, a smile and flimflam." Others become mere paper-shufflers...
Harvard Undergraduate Council--The other high school student body presidents, who shun sporty dress for blue jeans and white socks but who are nevertheless the same old frustrated politicians, comprise the HUC. They usually did not serve on the Freshman Council, because they would have learned about Harvard student government then...