Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contends, his readiness to intervene in Indo-China gave the British and French a basis of strength from which they negotiated the truce agreement at Geneva. Shepley wrote: "Dulles had seen to it that the Chinese and the Soviets knew that the U.S. was prepared to act decisively to prevent the fall of all of Southeast Asia...
...grant that the University recently received from the Ford Foundation cannot prevent the tuition increase, Bundy continued. He explained that the money is "mainly for increases in faculty salaries," and that "it will allow us to do about one-fourth of what we believe to be urgently necessary in this one area...
...Ticknor's pre-season neck injury will prevent his playing this spring, and Martin Lindsay's unhealed shoulder separation has cut the South African contingent to three: Lionel Bryer, John Chalsty, and Pat Latham...
...thing, a prison-camp killing is placed not only on stage, but down-stage, the body lying like a sack of potatoes, almost in the first row. This is done largely for the sake of ironic contrast with the song "California, here I come," which the prisoners sing to prevent the guards from hearing. If the killing were withdrawn slightly into the upstage darkness, the ironic effect could be retained, and an unnecessary awakwardness would be avoided. In matters of dramatic death, one inclines to feel that, after all, the Greeks knew best...
...that he would investigate General American's operations in his state, General American Director Connie C. Schuchard went to Kentucky and, charged the suit, "hired John A. Keck, a district judge of the state . . . and Wade Hall, an insurance man, to exert their political influence in order to prevent Commissioner Goebel from making said examination . . . For their fraudulent acts . . . Keck was to be paid $100 per month by General American and Keck and Hall were both given a ... territory in Kentucky . . . from which they were to obtain . . . a percentage of all the business written by General American...