Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prevent the German boom from faltering, Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard proposed to 1) import foreign labor, probably from Italy, 2) reduce import restrictions, thereby permitting cheaper foreign goods to compete with German products, forcing prices down. Such remedies met strong resistance from the Socialists and trade unions...
George Exintaris, the Greek representative, retorted: "Any government can prevent a mob from running wild." Tiney answered: "The Communists had a hand in stirring up the mobs." Greece's Exintaris, with a triumphant gleam in his eyes, protested: "But I thought you had eradicated Communism in Turkey...
...scruples on these scores should never be allowed to prevent the administration of baptism altogether. Our Blessed Lord was insistent that little children be allowed to come to Him. For a priest to repel an infant from the font means that he shoulders a responsibility which few indeed . . . can be willing to bear...
Many a mug on the edge of the big time thinks there is a formula for dealing with newsmen: intimidate or bribe. In Galveston, Texas, where vice and crime abound, Gambling Boss Anthony Fertitta tried that formula in an effort to prevent LIFE from getting pictures of his illegal operations. It did not work...
...also came one of the few somber notes to temper Geneva's optimism. In a paper written with two co-workers (Roger McCollough, Mark Wells), the University of California's famed H-expert, Edward Teller, warned that science has not yet found sure ways to prevent peaceful reactors from blowing up. "[Despite] all the inherent safeguards that can be put into a reactor," said Teller, ". . . it is important to emphasize . . . the public hazard that might follow a reactor accident . . . [Because of leaking radiation] it may be necessary to evacuate a large city, to abandon a watershed and . . . make...