Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfavorable outside publicity is often advanced as an argument against any relaxing of present restrictions, but the thought of Mrs. Grundy didn't deter the reformers at Yale and Princeton. If the Council report confirms the current doubts as to the utility of the specific parietal rules under attack, the time for action is now, for change...
...German air attacks on Britain during most of last week were on a smaller scale than the week before. German communiques indicated that flying weather was bad, but except on one night bad weather did not deter the R. A. F. from bombing German factories, freight yards, airports, canals, and forcing all German radio stations to shut down...
...General Sir Alan Francis Brooke, the British Army's new Commander in Chief (who in his time speared a wolf from the saddle), was seen in a new land-defense move made by Britain. Ripped out of roads and highway crossings, where they had been planted to deter invading Nazi war machines, were pillars and posts and upended rails-lest they impede the mobility of Sir Alan's defense forces...
When the Germans discovered that only sacrifice squads were left in the $500,000,000 Maginot fastnesses, in they poured through a gap gouged out at the Saar. They also crossed the Rhine at Neuf-Brisach, where floods from a dynamited French canal dam failed to deter them. Their bombers concentrated on rail traffic behind the fortresses and reported destroying 30 French railway cars, sending several loaded with munitions high in the air. Southward German motorized and nonmotorized columns "competed with each other in tremendous marches," said the exultant German communique...
...hoped," Dean Hanford stated, "that the charge will deter men from signing contracts with the thought that they will perhaps give up their assignment before the beginning of the next college year in order to live outside the House...