Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spain & Portugal. Both nations are now in the restless stage before an aging strongman surrenders authority (after 27 years for Salazar, 22 for Franco). But in each, the anxiety to avoid violence will probably prevent a revolution-or the injection of much democracy...
Nothing has really been done to prevent torture. Everything, on the contrary, has facilitated it: the attitude of the opponent, the helplessness of authority, the indifference of public opinion, and the laws themselves...
...there was little festive mood in the yellow-walled Defense Ministry. There sat Premier Kassem, who had let the Communists in his entourage rise to power in order to prevent Nasserites from taking over his revolution. Now at last he saw the need to prevent the Communists from taking over the revolution in turn, and sought to create a third group in Iraq loyal to him instead of to Cairo or Moscow. Against the advice of the Communists, who cry for blood vengeance, Kassem last week continued to release political prisoners from jail, and declared an amnesty for all those...
Individually and together, they have entered defensive alliances with Washington: Canada and Great Britain are members of NATO, Australia and New Zealand have joined the U.S. in ANZUS (excluding Britain) and SEATO. Canada and the U.S. made common cause in building the radar DEW line to prevent surprise attacks by Soviet planes coming from the North Pole...
Officially, Patricia is daughter of the game warden, a great, burly white hunter who has repented and now lives only to prevent other hunters from harming his animals. But the natives whisper that her real father is the king of beasts - a legend Patricia encourages by spending all her afternoons on chummy terms with the reserve's biggest lion...