Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ethyl"). There was the child-hating old woman who, for the Easter egg hunt, hid the eggs deep in the local cacti. There was the would-be siren on a man spree whom Barbara dubbed "Miss Ladydog." And there were a few prize phonies whom Barbara learned to shun by the chromium on their cars and the fact that their "checks were least likely to succeed...
...insurance and pay 40% of the policy costs. The program sets limits of $10,000 for a house and $250,000 for an individual or corporation, amounts to a pilot test to see how the Government can operate most effectively in a high-premium field that private insurance companies shun...
Special Conception. In many respects little (5 ft. 5 in.) Jimmy Hoffa and the man whose throne he seeks are cut from the same pattern. Both Beck and Hoffa are blocky, apparently tireless men who shun liquor and tobacco. Both operate with the hard-shell pragmatism of 19th century coal barons. Alongside Jimmy Hoffa, however, the table-pounding Beck appears a mild-mannered...
...would expect the true liberal to cry out in protest. Communism is the deadliest enemy of liberalism. Liberals should be the most consistent and energetic fighters against Communism. Liberals must also be on guard against developing a certain type of McCarthyism of their own. They must shun like a plague the role of being anti antiCommunist. Only by refusing to be thus entrapped can liberals shed every vestige of subconscious and conscious regard for Communism as a movement with which they have something in common...
...confreres felt that primary discrimination is fast disappearing. For nearly a decade, every company doing business with the Government has been required to shun it; a 1953 Presidential order set up a Government-business committee headed by Nixon to enforce stricter compliance. The example has persuaded industry to follow in non-Government work as well...