Word: deterred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that Warren was neither a legal philosopher nor an experienced judge-did not deter Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. and President Eisenhower after they had finished combing the list of prospects for a successor to the late Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson last fall. They knew that Warren had been highly successful as an administrator of the second most populous and fastest-growing state, and that the court needed an administrator almost as much as it needed a strong legal philosopher...
...news seemed hard to believe, but in New Delhi last week, a knowledgeable source vouched for it: India has instructed K.P.S. Menon,* its Ambassador in Moscow, to discuss the possibility of Soviet military aid for India. Pandit Nehru apparently hopes thereby to deter the U.S. from sending arms to India's mortal enemy, Pakistan...
...their skills and abilities, their industries, and above all their devotion to freedom into the neutral camp. Laying aside the moral wretchedness and the short-sightedness of such a course, it is still fool-hardy: for, while increasing the drain on America's men and money, it would not deter the China trade in the slightest...
...convinced that the hounding of career people by individual Congressmen is very, very wrong. I don't mind holding people responsible for failure, but not for judgement. It is enough now to make a public insinuation to discredit a man in the public eye and deter him from doing his work. Career services should not be a football of politics," he insists...
Both to help deter aggression and to help avert defeat, Seitz calls for "a defensive net." But he warns that the nation must also be ready to strike with "the most fearsome of our weapons." In discussing the morality of employing atomic or thermonuclear weapons, Seitz indulges in none of the hand-wringing that scientists often display in the pages of the Bulletin. It would be immoral, he says, "not to restrain Soviet aggression by any means which will be effective...