Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which make miscegenation (intermarriage of races) a crime. The first anti-miscegenation law was enacted in the colony of Maryland in 1661. It declared that "divers free-born English women, forgetful of their free conditions, and to the disgrace of our nation do intermarry with Negro slaves," and to deter these "shameful matches" the law provided that women who so marry, and their off-spring, should themselves become slaves. Massachusetts became the third colony to prohibit marriage between Negroes and Caucasians...
...Gaulle's nuclear experts and modern warfare men, however, were appalled. They insist that France's nuclear force will be only a deterrent, or else a last-gasp weapon; if they fail to deter, and France is falling, then and only then are the bombers to be used to drag the attacker under with France. They cannot be used on routine, tit-for-tat bombing missions as the war games suggested. As for the frantic, 15-weapon battlefield broadside, so lavish a use of atomic weapons in so small an area (particularly on French soil) amounted to nothing...
...city of Djokjakarta last week, he ranted that Malaysia (pop. 10 million) had been created "to corner Indonesia" (pop. 100 million). The fact that Malaysia has no army to speak of, compared with his own jet-and-missile-equipped 400,000-man force, was an incongruity that did not deter Sukarno. "The flowering of the Indonesian people will not retreat in the face of colonialism," he said. "We must fight and destroy Malaysia." Last week Foreign Secretary Lord Home declared solemnly that Britain was determined to maintain diplomatic relations with Indonesia despite Sukarno's provocations. Though Sukarno backed down...
...accused the former Georgia football coach of trying to fix a Georgia-Alabama game. "Butts was just a symbol," said a juror later. The jury had settled on $3,000,000 in punitive damages, he said, as the proper way to implement the judge's charge to "deter the wrongdoer from repeating trespass." As for the $60,000 general damages, that was simply the jury's calculation of Butts's future earning capacity. "Butts is 58 years old. We figured his life span at twelve more years and agreed on $5,000 a year...
...balance. Under this treaty, any gains in nuclear strength and knowledge which could be made by the tests of any other power-including not only underground tests, but even any illegal tests which might escape detection-could not be sufficient to offset the ability of our strategic forces to deter or survive a nuclear attack and to penetrate and destroy the aggressor's homeland. On the other hand, unrestricted testing -by which other powers could develop all kinds of weapons through atmospheric tests more cheaply an. quickly than they could underground-might well lead to a weakening...