Word: deterred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Butler charged again. He took notice of the party line by saying: "I will never villify the President, as Senator McCarthy has this week." But he went on: "All the roars of Chairman Hall and other Republicans will not deter me from calling attention to the failures of the President...
...recent years, the U.S. had hardly any air defense. On the sound military theory that offense is the best defense, the U.S. entrusted its safety to the Strategic Air Command under General Curtis LeMay. The theory was, and is, that SAC's poised heavy-bomber punch would either deter the Communists from attacking, or destroy Communist production centers if they did. Now, for the first time, the Reds may have strength enough to knock out SAC bases with a surprise blow. The U.S., unable to retaliate, would be doomed to destruction or surrender...
...Laborites feel about Mao's show of force? There was no reliable word, partly because most of the tourists had signed up for articles with British newspapers and presumably were saving their best answers. But if Attlee felt any discomfiture, it did not deter him from subsequent toasts to the desirability of Sino-British fellowship...
...those to make up for any loss in Reynolds' earning power. Said the court: "Where it is established that a defendant was inspired by actual malice . . . the jury may award . . . punitive damages ... or 'spite money' ... Its purpose is punishment, and [the setting of] an example to deter repetition of the offense . . ." In the award, only $1 was compensating damages. All the rest was punitive damages-$100,000 against Pegler himself, $50,000 against the Hearst Corp., whose King Features syndicates Pegler, and $25,000 against Pegler's New York outlet, the Journal-American.* But, Pegler...
...there is something illusory about the millions of dollars received in investment return, and Cabot is the first to admit it. For one thing, the huge numbers sometimes deter would-be benefactors from giving to an institution which they think--mistakenly--does not need the money...