Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Determined to avoid scandal, Premier Georges Bidault's cabinet made no public charges when it removed Revers. Instead, it placed him "at the disposal of the Prime Minister," and there was even talk that General Revers would get a new job, probably with Western Union headquarters at Fontainebleau. To succeed Revers as chief of staff, Bidault picked General Clement Blanc, a logistics expert who had directed the re-equipment of Free French forces in Africa with U.S. materials, and had served as General de Lattre de Tassigny's No. 2 man at Western Union headquarters. The French press...
...homes (including those of two high-ranking army officers), Cattáneo gave them the slip in the middle of a downtown Buenos Aires traffic jam. At week's end he, too, apparently was safe in Montevideo. The grapevine reported that he was keeping under cover there to avoid embarrassing the Uruguayan government...
...university community that this questionnaire, as recently amplified by the Navy ruling, works the greatest damage. An NROTC student who has to testify to his past purity is subjected to a form of political intimidation. If he wishes to avoid trouble, he will be extremely unlikely to exercise his curiosity by examining the operations and doctrines of proscribed groups. And even the student who doesn't go near NROTC headquarters will be wary of listening to ideas labeled "subversive," if he knows that a person "similarly associated" may one day jot this down on a Navy questionnaire for possible...
Howe said the trouble with radio was that "too many people listen" and "too few pay the bills." The airwaves must avoid many important and controversial issues, he said because it must provide entertainment for "all the family...
...vicious circle" in the club meetings themselves: outside speakers do not stimulate student participation; on the other hand, some people will not attend a meeting unless they can listen to a speaker. Berrien feels this often becomes a fourth classroom lecture, which is exactly what he tries to avoid. He supposes that some students are "organically spectators," but he is still anxious to strike a successful balance between speakers and student discussion groups, and he would like to introduce more round tables and debates...