Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...games saw favorite Princeton topple Columbia, Yale upset Brown, and Cornell, an 11-point loser to the crimson in the Downeast Classic, defeat highly-regarded Pennsylvania. These results mainly presage a tight race for second place behind Princeton, but they also indicate that the Crimson will be pressed to avoid the eighth-place finish pre-season polls predicted...
With such a record of subtle achievement, Bundy will be unable to avoid becoming a legend while working only 500 miles away. It's not at all easy to imagine a Harvard without...
...Hollywood Ten -writers cited in 1947 for contempt of Congress after refusing to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee if they had ever been Communists-Trumbo also wrote the recent, $12-million Spartacus, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will have to strain to avoid awarding him an Oscar next spring. In both Spartacus and Exodus, Trumbo turned rambling, middle-grade raw material into tight and excellent scripts, lightened with humor and touched with irony...
...Blackleg!" the shop steward (Bernard Lee) rages. The factory owner (Laurence Naismith), anxious to avoid unnecessary trouble with the union, is disgusted with him, too. When the strike ends, the men vote to send the hero to Coventry. Nobody speaks to him, nobody eats with him, nobody touches work he has touched. His best friend deserts him, his wife (Pier Angeli) gets hysterical, the company pressures him to climb down and apologize. The hero holds out, he hardly knows why. "If people can't be different," he mumbles bitterly, "there's no point...
When Leland Hayward and his third wife, Slim, were divorced last May, part of the settlement involved territorial rights in New York nightclubs, to avoid embarrassing encounters. Hayward, for example, was assigned one side of El Morocco, while Slim got the other side and the Champagne Room, too. Very few New Yorkers consider their nightclubs that important, but for a month now they have been hearing the din of a limited war over a 20-year-old police ordinance that requires nightclub employees-from entertainers to hat-check girls-to carry police identity cards. A Citizens' Emergency Committee...