Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Avoid favoritism to any particular group...
...though the Navy had been able in some part to avoid the Army manpower crisis, it had its own troubles. Its blueprint for a postwar Navy of 551,880 officers and men, with a 108,000-man Marine Corps, had been shelved by the Senate Naval Affairs Committee until after the atom-bomb tests. Its $6-billion budget for fiscal 1947 had been cut by $2 billion...
...reporter, Connolly grinned that "according to your standards, I'm just a sissy writer." But he has a horror of becoming too fashionable: "We don't want to be known as the Vogue of literature." To avoid that, he pledged the magazine "to work for a new humanism which considers human life vulgar but sacred...
...such a hyper-realistic effort, it is vital that the cast be shrewdly picked to avoid affectation, histrionics, and dramatic cliches; the international group, often even benefited by lack of previous experience, fulfils every qualification. "The Last Chance" differs from its many predecessors not because it is trying to say something but because it succeeds is getting a great deal beyond a feeble waving of the studio copy of the Americas flag...
...least until 1960, Russia will be much weaker than the U.S. For that reason Russian policy will be to avoid a major showdown...