Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United World Federalists is the best example of an organization trying to work through the U.N. to a limited world government strong enough to prevent war. At its seventh annual convention in 1953, U.W.F. called for the amendment of the U.N. charter "to achieve universal disarmament enforced under adequate safeguards." Grenville Clark '03, former member of the Corporation, sums up this argument when he writes in A Plan for Peace: "No stable peace without disarmament; no disarmament without limited world government...
Fischer played a fine game in goal, making two leaping stops on shots that looked like sure scores and smothering several shots to prevent rebounds, but some of the lustre was taken from his performance by a lapse that permitted the only Cornell goal...
...always a ripe target. But the show's dialogue needs tightening. It continually seems poured in around the catchy scenes and clever jokes as a filler, like cement. Funny situation are set up too obviously. The dialogue holds together only through the skill of the actors, who manage to prevent the humor from degenerating into slapstick...
...second month after vaccination reported polio cases among vaccinated youngsters were predominantly nonparalytic, suggesting that the vaccine cuts polios virulence even when it does not entirely prevent the disease...
...this respect the new code is satisfactory: it instructs captured soldiers to use all their resources for the welfare of other prisoners. They should first try to prevent capture, and once captured, aid their fellow prisoners and use every means to escape. Under new orders issued by Defense Secretary Wilson, military instructors deepen this resourcefulness by training men how to avoid interrogation, to minimize suffering, and increase their chances of survival. Easing the hardship of captivity demands every capacity of each prisoner of war. Yet the new conduct code fails our soldiers when it asks them to rely on their...