Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousand acres of rented pasture land, a spread that would normally carry from 1,000 to 1,100 sheep and from 125 to 150 cattle. When the drought took hold in earnest back in 1950, Wilhelm played it smarter than some of his neighbors, sold off his herds to prevent overgrazing, used the cash to buy feed for the animals he kept. Today it costs him a money-losing $12 a year to feed each cow, $2 to feed each sheep...
...delicate peacemaking mission in the Middle East, the U.S. gave him a tremendous boost on his way. In a pivotal policy statement issued last week at Augusta, Ga., President Eisenhower pledged "support in the fullest measure" for Hammarskjold and for the whole principle of working through U.N. to prevent a new Palestine war. With such emphatic backing, as well as a mandate from the U.N. Security Council, Hammarskjold went into action last week clothed with far greater authority than that of a skilled international bureaucrat trying to be helpful. The first results were promising...
Pundit Walter Lippmann, who rarely finds much to cheer in the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy, called the new policy "surely right." Wrote Lippmann: "The threatened Palestinian war is just the kind of war that the U.N. is designed to prevent. The U.N. recognizes in the veto provision the fact that if the great powers themselves are in direct conflict, the U.N. can do nothing more than attempt to conciliate. But where only small powers are involved, it is possible to limit if not to prevent war, provided the Big Five concur. Working through the U.N. . . . fixes the fact that...
...Department of Justice also asked for authority to bring suit against anyone who seeks to prevent a person from exercising his right to vote. At present, only state and local officials can be prosecuted, although attempts at intimidation and coercion often come from persons with no governmental connection. In addition, the Justice Department wants permission for either it or a private individual to go directly to a Federal court in such cases without first exhausting lengthy state procedures...
...comparison with its predecessors (which averaged 250 years each). These steps include maintenance of a standing army of up to 20 million men, emphasis on the intensive indoctrination of youth ("The Communists openly state that they have no use for people over thirty"), complete collectivization of land to prevent the rise of a new landlord class, and development of an industrialized, proletarianized North China that could easily put down any revolt occurring in the agricultural South...