Word: forfend
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...point is, I take it, that "belief matters in politics." President Kennedy's intense effort in the recent campaign to forfend mistaken visions of tunnels to the Vatican or popes in New York harbours may unfortunately have led people to the opposite erroneous extreme of thinking religion and secular life have no points of contact at all. But the adherent of any religious creed and the set of moral ethics it implies, must naturally strive to express these in his daily life. A believer in the precepts of the Constitution will endeavour to do the same. So the Catholic takes...
...appointment demands someone well versed in foreign affairs, and I'm not. I cannot even speak English well enough to express myself. I'm afraid that my cherished reputation, which I built by long years of conscientious work in the army, may be ruined in politics." To forfend any such disaster, Premier Thanom shrewdly asked Thailand's wise and respected Prince Wan Waithayakon and two other distinguished Thai statesmen and scholars to serve as Vice Premiers...
Nice that Ike doesn't have to "act" anything. What he appears to be he is. Let acting flourish in the theatrical world where it belongs. Not, Heaven forfend, in the White House...
FORTUNE'S deepest assumption is that man can use his foresight to forfend against the evils he faces. The U.S. has learned that modern war reaches into every part of a nation's life, that war changes its mind, changes its habits, takes the pots & pans away from the housewife, the silk stockings from the legs of the pretty girl across the street. But it remains to be seen whether Americans are prepared for the organized effort they must make if FORTUNE'S view of the U.S. task is right. If the editors are right the task...
...nation wondering whether its morale, mind, muscles have been too much enfeebled (by years of cynicism, of tolerance without discrimination) to fight now for the things democracy holds dear; to such a worrying, mistrustful, anxious country the answer will come clear only if Franklin Roosevelt acts boldly to forfend the crisis piled on crisis, if he boldly, surely chooses among the variety of desperate choices, if he strongly decides, and strongly acts...