Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young last-ditch Italian fascist living in exile across the Swiss border, had tried to peddle these letters to various publishers. None would bite, for they had been denounced as fakes and forgeries by everybody involved, including Winston Churchill and Alcide de Gasperi. But such denunciations did not deter wealthy Publisher Angelo Rizzoli, who is Italy's most unclassifiable political figure. Signer Rizzoli publishes Candido, a savagely satirical weekly edited by right-wing Novelist Giovanni (The Little World of Don Camillo) Guareschi; Oggi, a slightly milder weekly with Monarchist politics; L'Europeo, which leans slightly left of center...
...compress this vast story into a popular film biography involves a challenge that might well deter Hollywood. On a less ambitious scale-and aiming to teach as much as to entertain-the Radio and Film Commission of the U.S. Methodist Church has produced John Wesley, a 77-minute "semidocumentary" in color. Made at cost ($200,000) by Britain's J. Arthur Rank, a zealous Methodist himself, it is "for use in the churches...
...there is something illusory about the millions of dollars received in investment return, and Cabot is the first to admit it. For one thing, the huge numbers sometimes deter would-be benefactors from giving to an institution which they think--mistakenly--does not need the money...
...they would permit Germany to rearm only if the German forces were part of a European, not a national army. Such a supra-national force will come into existence only if the French will it. Today, no single European state can act as a third force powerful enough to deter Soviet aggression. If a balance of power is possible in the hydrogen age, it can come only through a close union of the United States and a united Europe...
...Atomic air power deters atomic air power, period," wrote Williams. "If we want to deter anything else, and if we want to have the means of dealing with the situation in case the deterrents fail, we must be able to counter . . . any aggressive movement, whether by a hostile army, navy or air force. We must have weapons and concepts suited to the needs of every level of military operation between the border raid and all-out global war . . . This means a level of conventional armaments adequate to meet the needs of our national security in the absence of atomic weapons...