Word: deterred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resulting lack of information can sometimes have important results. Last year's freshmen voted to join the CRR without really knowing its particulars or purpose. The paternal outcry of the more worldly and knowing upperclassmen did not deter the freshmen from their chosen path, and the seven-year boycott died a quiet death...
...said yesterday "action should be taken to deter the continuance of this problem, if it exists...
...drafty boxcar rattling across the continent of North America in January, 1889. His parents, penniless immigrants, were traveling to San Francisco, where the Atchison Railroad had promised his father a decent wage and a decent living. But while the railroad's promise proved hollow, the lie did not deter the father's son. Dan Lavette was too tough. By the time America's economic bubble burst in 1929, Lavette had dreamed, bluffed and borrowed his way to the top of a sprawling financial empire. He commanded ocean liners and airlines. He had married one of the most beautiful women...
...Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn sees it, Hatfield's argument requires the West to practice "self-deterrence." Said Nunn: "I remind my colleagues that the purpose of deterrence is to deter Soviet aggression, not to deter ourselves from responding to that aggression...
Senate backers of the neuts were strongly supported by the military. One Pentagon official said, "NATO is a defense alliance. It won't attack. Any attack will be conducted on friendly territory. We want to deter attack and defend territory without destroying what we want to save." In Belgium, NATO Commander General Alexander Haig Jr. said that America's allies had given the bomb their "enthusiastic support...