Word: avoidance
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...limit my embarrassment, I became adept at dodging the food students threw at me during lunch. I located my classes on school maps and developed new routes so I could avoid the between-class hangouts of certain students (particularly the ones wearing tight jeans with large belt buckles). Within a few months, though, I was tired. As good as my navigation skills had become, I hated constantly rethinking how to get from point A to point B. It still hurt to hear students whispering about me in class and to feel too scared to say anything. I hated the sound...
...will finalized in November, I couldn’t balance grinding and affection with words like “blood transfusion” and “cancer.” Instead, I dropped my social studies tutorial and retreated into isolation, eating alone in other Houses to avoid contact with the people who knew me best, locking myself in my single to keep out my friends. As I spent more time alone, free from the social entanglements supposedly responsible for my flamboyance, I realized I wasn’t all that different from before. In the vacuum of isolation...
...foot area visible from the parlor. During busy shifts, it takes four or five bakers—all clad in the trademark white uniform—to keep hot pizza in supply. While stretching dough, making subs and serving customers, Noch’s pizzamakers maneuver adroitly to avoid collisions. There is little idle chatter. The concentration, says Pinocchio’s owner and manager Rico DiCenso, is necessary because Noch’s takes its pizza very seriously...
...There is no completely foolproof way to avoid financial improprieties completely,” Associate Dean of College David P. Illingworth ’71 wrote in an e-mail...
Illingworth says that in deciding on oversight policies, he wants to avoid a heavy-handed approach...