Word: deter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things stand, Lippmann seems to think the U.S. has the power to deter Soviet aggression, because the Russians believe that if the Red army marches appreciably beyond its present lines, the U.S. will go to war. But this will work only so long as the Russians believe that the U.S. does not plan to attack them in a preventive war, whether they march...
Shirley May France's clothes still hung on the hickory limb but she clung anxiously to a French beach, waiting for southwesterly winds to die down. The winds did not deter a hefty, partially crippled, 34-year-old Belgian mining machine manufacturer named Fernand du Moulin. Around 10 o'clock one night last week Fernand left a champagne party given by his wife, anointed himself with grease and took to the choppy waters off France's Cap Gris Nez. He struck out with a powerful breast stroke, stopping now & then to tread water and consume 20 fortifying...
...dean of the Texas House of Representatives, El Paso's ex-judge Samuel Jackson Isaacks, suggested it. He offered a bill which, he promised, would "deter Congress from stepping into a state responsibility, in which they have no more business than they do in cases of rape, burglary or traffic violations." The bill provided a penalty for lynch mobsters of from five years' imprisonment to death. Last week, four days before Harry Truman's civil rights program was talked to a standstill in the U.S. Senate (see above), the Texas House of Representatives passed the bill, virtually...
Practice ended just as the black clouds started spitting the first few drops of rain, but that didn't deter most of the crowd from moving back across the river to the rally, which followed its traditional path in reverse, starting at Eliot House, winding up on the steps of Widener, and picking up about 1,500 undergraduates...
That TIME'S editors (along with many others) had a pretty good idea where the conference was coming out did not deter them from covering it. The TIME-LIFE Bureau at San Francisco, under Washington Bureau Chief Robert Elson, numbered about 15, one of the largest groups of reporters TIME Inc. had ever sent to one place. Their job was not to add to the din, but to place each week's report in a perspective that fitted the facts, and to report the kind of detail that got over to the reader the real character...