Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publications in danger of losing this battle? The chief reason is that the majority deliberately pull their punches. Unlike union papers, which thrive on dispute and energetically exploit any issue that affects the worker's welfare, most house organs concentrate on personal notes and chitchat. They not only shun controversy but steer clear of any stories on company policies and problems. A recent survey of 75 house organs in the Los Angeles area showed that only 15% made any attempt to communicate management plans and policies, almost all the rest were filled with social and personal items...
Though an erudite specialist on the 13th century, Keeney proved early that he was a talented administrator. But more important, he also turned out to be much the same sort of plain-speaker as Henry Wriston. He railed against students who shun controversy for fear of losing some future Government clearance ("If silence is the price of Government service, it is too high a price to pay"), and against scholarly stuffiness ("It must clearly be understood that the scholar does not lose dignity by being intelligible"). He is also a relentless crusader against the growing theory on many U.S. campuses...
...Never in history has any country contained such a high proportion of cowed and eunuchoid males, drilled with Prussian thoroughness to shun all household sins. Never, but never, do they drop cigar ashes in the icebox, prop their feet on a coffee table, leave an unwashed dish in the sink . . . They endure their married lives in mute docility, and die mercifully early in life from ulcers and high blood pressure...
...rode with him and the Bluebird held together, Don Campbell was on his way to get back the speed record once held by his father, the late Sir Malcolm Campbell (141.74 m.p.h.), and won in 1952 by Seattle's Stanley Sayres and his propeller-driven hydroplane Slo-Mo-Shun IV (178.497 m.p.h...
Agents & Double Agents. Gehlen's agents, like their master, shun publicity. For security reasons, few of them know more than two or three other members of the organization. Their successes go unheralded (except by the squawks of pain from the Communists), but for their failures they may pay with their lives. In East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia, the Communists claim to have captured scores of so-called "American-paid Gehlen agents...