Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work of scholarship, and makes no particular attempt to capitalize on Lewis' volcanic personality or his famous colleagues. Wagner writes clearly, if without particular flair, and covers his points in orderly progression. Though the scholarly tone of the work and its meticulous consideration of details will probably deter the general reader, it contains much of interest about a provocative man in a turbulent literary...
Already possessing conventional forces, West Germany has been committed, because of her location, to a "deter or die" position. Nuclear armaments promise to strengthen deterrent power; while Germany will be wiped out anyway, in the event...
Smith is the only Big Seven women's college which will release figures on the total number of applicants. The admissions departments of the other schools feel that a comparison of these large figures to the smaller numbers of students who can be admitted might deter prospective students from applying, the Radcliffe dean explained...
...whose business it is to plan for war, in both the U.S. and Russia, know better. In February U.S. Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles set forth the U.S. position quite clearly: "To deter not only total war, but limited war as well. I believe we must make clear to all potential aggressors that we will resist aggression with our quality weapons from the outset. Any lesser posture of deterrence is an open invitation to aggression, and is less than our best effort to avert...
...fact that Britain was engaging the French army hotly in battle over the Spanish succession did not deter George I from ordering a whole Paris trousseau for his daughter-in-law. Marie Antoinette's dressmaker, Rose Bertin, maintained Paris' reputation for extravagant whims, and after the Revolution, aristocratic ladies carried on with the macabre fancy of dressing 'àa la victime,' their hair shorn off as in preparation for the guillotine and their necks bound by a thin red ribbon to simulate the cut of the knife. Trade thrived, and soon Louis' chief minister...