Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could provoke us plenty before we would throw an atomic bomb at them. Ridgway's answer is an adequate, up-to-date, highly mobile Army, which, if necessary, can fight and win localized wars. Ridgway and his followers believe that the mere existence of such an Army will deter would-be aggressors from adventures that might end in defeat and humiliation for the Party...
...Wigglesworth archways were dark hideaways, locked gates would be justified. But instead, they are clean, well-lighted places, which are quite safe at night. The University police contend that closed gates deter thieves from raiding the nearby entries of Wigglesworth by restricting their routes of escape. In the long run to the Holyoke Street, exit, alert proctors would have time to make the tackle. Yet with Lamont open until midnight, homeward-bound students would keep the archway patrolled, forcing burglars to postpone their raids until later...
...picked up her bags and her five children and left Freedom Palace. With a what-did-I-tell-you click of the tongue, the clubwomen promptly petitioned for a new law that would require Presidents to get parliamentary permission before marrying in office. That, they thought, might at least deter President Soekarno from taking his full limit of wives, which is four...
Water so rough that the regular Wilson Line Boston-to-Provincetown steamer wasn't sailing didn't deter the man. For Grover wasn't going to have a boat follow along with him. "No one has ever swum a distance like that without a boat," he informed a life guard...
...anniversary would bring violence followed by a mili tary coup proved to be mere talk. Time and again since Vargas' death, rumors of an impending takeover by the armed forces have buzzed about Rio. But Brazilian public opinion is so overwhelmingly anti-coup that it may well deter the restless generals and colonels from intervening in the presidential election scheduled...