Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan is under way for the United States to give up, bit by bit, its commitments in the Formosa Strait . . . Like Gulliver in Lilliput, the great strength of the United States has been pinned down by men too small for it to notice . . . We must have a formula to prevent surrender or appeasement, and that formula must be so clear . . . that no hidden appeasers can pervert...
...powerful, cocky, victorious Wehrmacht charging into Russia. Zhukov fought a battle at Yelnia, near Smolensk, which drove the invaders back 20 miles. It was one of the few successful delaying actions. Stalin's first act of war was to reinstate the army commissars, but commissars were unable to prevent hundreds of Red army commanders, thinking they preferred Nazi to Communist tyranny, from surrendering their arms and their men. Quite a few commissars went over, too. Others, like Old Irregular Budenny, defeated in the Ukraine, beat it back to Moscow. Within four months the Wehrmacht was at the gates...
...next step in the war." says Zhukov, "was to prevent Hitler maneuvering." This Zhukov did in a series of masterly battles, the sweep and magnitude of which have never been equaled. Over a front that stretched from far inside the Arctic Circle down to subtropical Sukhumi, he manipulated some 300 divisions. Every man or woman who could walk was either in the army or in a war factory. Factories in the Urals were pouring out tanks and guns. Vital supplies of ammunition, aircraft, gasoline and trucks were arriving from the Allies. Zhukov began to knock the stuffing...
Gronchi (pronounced gronc-key) is a Christian Democrat. But the loudest cheers came from the Communists and their fellow-traveling allies, Pietro Nenni's Socialists. Mario Scelba. the Christian Democratic Premier, stood in glum silence. He and Party Secretary Amintore Fanfani had done everything in their power to prevent the election of their fellow Christian Democrat. Gronchi's victory was a humiliating defeat for Scelba's shaky four-party coalition of the center; it was an open defiance of Fanfani's personal leadership of the big Christian Democratic Party, which has firmly guided Italy into...
...from a Music Department which claims that instrumental instruction has no place in a liberal arts college. "We must have undiluted liberal; education here," one music professor recently said. "The spirit of a class and the spirit of a private lessons are quite different things." In this effort to prevent any so-called trade-school atmosphere, the Department refuses to institute a program similar to those of the Fine Arts and Architectural Science fields where they have worked well for several years without marring the College's liberal arts policy...