Word: deterred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ARTHUR E. LINK New York City The Treaty Debate Sir: The signing of this "nonaggression" pact with the U.S.S.R. reminds me of one signed in the '20s-the Kellogg-Briand Pact. It did not deter the Japanese from building a fleet-and we sold them the scrap iron...
...from Quiquendone who now works for Macmillan. He is the fellow who de cided to print the book so that it must be held 90° around from the normal, so that pages must be turned from top to bottom instead of right to left. But this should not deter true lovers of the Vernacular. Dr. Ox is a gasser...
Sounding the Trumpet. Three years ago, that "needed and wanted feeling" was painfully absent. Prevailing U.S. military doctrine relied mainly upon the threat of nuclear retaliation to deter not only big wars but also little wars. Lacking strategic nuclear punch, the Army was assigned only a relatively minor role in U.S. defense planning. After Korea the Army gradually dwindled to 14 understrength divisions. Renowned Army Generals Matthew Ridgway, James Gavin and Maxwell D. Taylor resigned in protest against the down-rating of the Army. In his clamor-making book The Uncertain Trumpet, Taylor attacked what he considered excessive reliance...
...psychologists maintained that by using "prediction devices to deter-veloping into persistent delinquents because of faulty parental attitudes and behavior," it will be possible "to detect early signs of impending trouble and furnish skillful and timely therapy and instruction to children and parents in situations found to be critical...
...scientist is to find out about the physical world," he contended, "and to increase our power over nature. How these tools are used is clearly not the responsibility of the scientist. For instance, a nuclear explosion can be used for aggression; it can also be used to deter aggression, build harbors, deflect rivers, or as a scientific tool to find out more about nature. By itself a nuclear explosion is neither good nor bad. The way it is used makes it either good...