Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...careful years in Washington, silver-shocked Senator Shipstead has learned to avoid controversial domestic subjects, has never signed his name to any important piece of legislation. But he has remembered to look out for his constituents. He blatantly promised "to lead the farmers up to the Treasury-trough for a hearty feed." Originally a Republican, he paid no attention to party lines. Minnesota had first sent him to the Senate as a Farmer-Laborite, returned him twice on that ticket, finally as a Republican again...
Spaghetti & Tea. But the voters were uninterested. A Harvard public-opinion expert made a study of the district, advised him to avoid world problems. As president of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (named after his dead brother), and as an American Legionnaire, he already had the wholehearted support of most veterans. His big job was to convince the 37 different nationalities in some of Boston's grimiest slums that he was not just the wealthy son of wealthy Joe Kennedy, former Ambassador to Britain...
...Typical questions: "Of what advantage is decimal coinage?" "What should a sweeper do about the atom bomb?" "How can a girl avoid being raped...
...listened to Evan Hardy knew that the prairies will have droughts again. But by practicing what he preached, they hoped they could avoid making their lands into dust bowls...
...pontifical, he spent much of the next ten years longing to get back to his books (Dante, medieval history). Even when he became second man in the Times's Paris bureau, he writes ruefully, he stuck to his ivory tower, picked up no political knowledge that he could avoid, shut his eyes to the drama of his own century...