Word: deter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they occupy without triggering a conflict that would force him to call in the Western allies to bail him out. But Nehru can no longer afford to let China gobble up any more Indian territory. If India cannot throw the Chinese out, it must hasten its defense buildup to deter Red China from any more land grabbing. If it does not, India may find itself in the grip of a five-finger vise...
More than five years since Russian tanks crushed the Hungarian revolution and Janos Kadar took over as the country's ruler, the secret police still make dead-of-night arrests, and land mines along the Austrian frontier still deter potential escapes. But, imitating Nikita Khrushchev's methods, Communist Kadar has begun to loosen the noose around the Hungarian people. While forced collectivization of agriculture continues, luxury and hard goods are more abundant, even though prices are high. Last week Kadar announced a policy of peaceful coexistence between Hungary's Communist rulers and non-Communist majority...
...night, Roger's alarm clock woke all the household. Then he went outside, scanning the heavens, hoping for a glimpse of his hero. Of course, the fact that the capsule passed over Woomera and Perth (hundreds and hundreds of miles away from our place) didn't deter Roger...
...students' proposal that the United States withdraw those advance missile bases "whose vulnerability makes them useless except for the purpose of a first strike against the Soviet Union." There is no space here to review the long debate over the wisdom or lack of wisdom in seeking to deter non-nuclear ventures by a threat of a nuclear first strike. It may be said that the administration has been proceeding as rapidly as possible away from reliance upon vulnerable first-strike weapons and that practical and policy reasons have convinced many who have spent a great deal of time...
...defense planning rests on the assumption that all-out war, if it comes, will begin with a Soviet nuclear attack against U.S. missile and bomber bases. To deter the Russians from launching such an attack, the U.S. needs a tough, reliable, intercontinental ballistic missile that can be mass produced, buried in the ground, and fired within 15 minutes of the instant that enemy rockets first flash onto the radar screens of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System in Alaska and Greenland. It is now convincingly clear that the Air Force has developed just such a missile: the Minuteman...