Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weaken their organization. What better way to strengthen their organization than to hold debates and caucuses within their club before arriving at a public position? The Republicans say they do not want to be forced to choose sides, and even here their fears are groundless. For what is to prevent the Republicans from sending to the Forum an uncommitted delegation divided equally between...
...level, President P. M. Fox said: "We have gone beyond [our] ability to absorb increasing costs." At week's end the Justice Department, which has no jurisdiction over Canadian producers, asked U.S. newsprint manufacturers to confer with its trustbusters, warned pointedly: "Every effort will be made to prevent any joint efforts to increase prices" of domestic newsprint...
Princeton, as was expected, was unable to do anything to prevent its opposition from just running away with the race. Captain Jack Vodrey, the Tiger's most highly touted harrier, was unable, despite the feverish cries of Princeton managers and rooters to challenge the load even remotely at any time after the beginning. And it was not Vodrey who came in first for Princeton, but his teammate, Vern Dennison...
...August 27, Postmaster General Arthur J. Summerfield's department issued a withhold-from-dispatch order to prevent Harrison from distributing his magazine to news dealers through the mails. He and his two lawyers, Edward Bennett Williams and Daniel Ross, immediately started a civil action against Summerfield, claiming the order was a "clear violation of the Constitution." They were right. On October 7, District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl ordered the Post Office to rescind its order...
Faure was not deceived. Shaking his fist at the Gaullists, he accused them of trying to overthrow him at all costs. "Your game is crystal-clear. You want to prevent me from applying my Moroccan policy endorsed last Sunday," he cried. Privately, the Gaullists admitted the truth of the charge. At last Faure wearily posed the Algerian program as a vote of confidence in himself, and set the vote for early this week. Quipped a left-wing Deputy: "There is a pleasant graveyard smell here...