Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bearers bringing down the casualties (three killed, 61 wounded, of whom many were stunned or scratched and returned to duty the next day). Their report home made Operation Smack seem like a staged show, bloody and purposeless. In Washington, Michigan's Republican Congressman Clare Hoffman, never one to shun a headline, sounded off loudly. The Army, he trumpeted, must explain "whether these invited guests were witnessing a spectacle similar to that where gladiators performed for the entertainment of invited guests in the time of the Roman emperors...
...tone of classroom instruction, is chiefly a recital of facts . . . objective, noncontroversial, a record of events. It recounts what happened . . . but often fails to ask why it happened [or] what the meaning is . . . This gets into the realm of opinion, and in this scientific age scholarship and instruction shun the speculative . . . The real issues are frequently sidestepped because no scientific proof is possible...
...Republican at heart. He makes a careful distinction between areas in which he thinks the Federal Government can legitimately help to boost the nation's health (e.g., aid to medical schools, loans for building hospitals, and far-reaching public-health programs) and the area he insists it must shun. As he put it: "The Government has an important place in the picture, but England has proven to us that doctors and the application of medicine cannot be put on an assembly-line basis . . . but must be an individual and personal thing between the doctor and the patient...
...built or drove them. As the six big hydroplanes jockeyed and circled, awaiting the start of the first of three 30-mile heats, some 250,000 fans on the shores of Seattle's Lake Washington confidently cheered the two local entries-Stanley Sayres's Slo-mo-shun V and his Slo-mo-shun IV, setter of the world one-mile speed record of 178.497 m.p.h. (TIME, July...
...mysterious stones, but they doggedly followed the pudding stone trail across eastern England. At last it took them to Grime's Graves in Norfolk, a dark, fir-grown hollow where Stone Age man from earliest times dug flint with staghorn picks. Norfolk country people shun the spot, and call it "the evil place." But for the Rudges, it was the payoff...