Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Lucy; only organized student action, beforehand, could have counterbalanced the firebrands that were certain to arise. While the Student Government Association had considered the effects of Miss Lucy's admission, it had completely overlooked the possibility of violence and what, if anything, could be done to prevent it. Certainly the subsequent condemnation of the riots by many student groups--including the men's and women's Student Governments, the students of the law school, a council of religious organizations--indicates that a large number of students was ready to accept Miss Lucy--if only as a necessary evil...
...straight win yesterday, defeating Exeter Academy 7-1 at Exeter N.H. Capt. George Higginbottom and Dick Fischer, who had two goals and as assist, were standouts for the Crimson.(Top) Boston College's big DON FOX and goalie CHICK D'ENTREMONT combined sliding saves in the second period to prevent a Crimson goal. The varsity forwards waiting for the rebound are BOB CLEARY (left), LYLE GUTTU (3), and PETE SUMMERS (10). (Below) B.C.'s careful defensive work checks BOB McVEY (center), in front of the Eagles' goal...
...meaning of Government's role in the 20th century breakthrough of U.S. capitalism. With no breast-beating the Economic Report accepts Government responsibility for correcting unemployment, raising farm prices, reducing regional "pockets of poverty" and expanding social security. It promises to curb "monopolistic tendencies," and even undertakes to prevent future depressions...
...segregation in the schools "solely because of race." He thought that the Southern states could evade the court's order by framing new standards of segregation based on factors other than race, "to promote the public health, raise the academic standards, protect the psychological welfare of the child, prevent violence, promote peaceful and harmonious race relations. This kind of segregation is not based upon race . . . The court has no power to interfere with or place a limitation upon the power of any state to regulate health, morals, education, marriage and good order within the state." Eastland said heavily that...
...rioting that began in Bombay (TIME, Jan. 30) spread right across India. Mobs squatted on railroad tracks to halt trains, crowded onto airfields to prevent planes from landing, blocked roads with trees, broke into jails and freed convicts, looted stores, ripped down telephone wires. Newspapers that had given Nehru steady support were charging the government with "moral bankruptcy." The prestige of the Congress Party had never been lower...