Word: deterred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principle. Conceding that the forces could be quickly sent back, the general argued that the U.S. might find it "politically undesirable to do so because to take action at a time of tension or time of crisis might trigger the very event you are seeking to avoid or deter." So far, the Administration has compromised on the figure...
...washerwoman spy is but a tiny part of a vast, largely secret U.S., Vietnamese and Royal Laotian effort to detect, deter and destroy the primary funnel through which North Vietnamese men and materiel head for South Viet Nam. The Ho Chi Minh trail, a 200-mile "logistical wonder" according to U.S. officials, is a massive maze of roads, bridges, waterways and paths complete with primitive motels. In recent months its roads have been paved with crushed stone or topped with pressed laterite. Camouflages of bamboo and branch roof it over where the jungle canopy is balding. Bridges are often built...
Until those standards are laid down, though, Douglas' vague decision allows both Justice and the FTC time and latitude to study the snowballing conglomerate phenomenon. Clearly the court has not ordered a wholesale trustbusting attack. Nor has it gone out of its way to deter the application of antitrust law to conglomerate mergers...
...situations that have few similarities to a calm court of law. And there are no easy prescriptions for any part of a policeman's immensely varied job. "Keeping streets and parks safe is not the same problem as keeping banks secure. The kind of police patrol that will deter boys from street robberies is not likely to deter men with guns from holding up storekeepers...
...nowadays, but in general life is heaven for the masses compared with what it was 22 years ago in some countries. This miracle of prosperity is as good a guarantee against holocaust as any missile offense or defense program man can create. For it is not machines that will deter man from certain actions-if he is desperate, he will always be clever enough to find the flaws in someone else's system. Rather, it is his inner feeling of what life is worth to him that will be the all powerful deterrent. This area must not be slighted...