Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Law School graduates have failed to prevent the Massachusetts Commission on Communism from publishing the names of 200 alleged Communists...
...seem grossly inappropriate. To be sure, the Theory of Relativity did provide the theoretical basis for nuclear fission. But if there was anything that Einstein's life-work opposed, it was the bomb. A leader in warning of the weapon's destructive potential, Einstein championed total world disarmament to prevent its further use. He early cited the danger of radiation poisoning, and commented in 1945, when told of the Hiroshima bombing, "the world is not ready for it." Indeed, one wonders whether Einstein would have published his original Relativity paper at all, had he known in 1905 that atomic bombs...
...tomorrow in memory of a man who rode round the town telling people to get out of the way of the shot heard round the world and who was a coppersmith on the side which a man who makes coppers who are men who prevent crimes and shots and that is why the Mafia and the CRIME will be inoperative tomorrow...
...United States would be abandoning its policy of containing aggression. Massive retaliation would signal American determination to destroy the Communist regime in China, even though Russia would be almost forced to enter the war to prevent the defeat of her chief partner. And massive atomic retaliation means total war against a civilian population, with disastrous consequences even in non-Communist world opinion. Non-Communist Asia would surely turn against the West and anti-American feeling in our European allies would rise to new heights...
...situation will have clarified by the fall," Farnsworth said, "and then we will be able to decide more definitely what we will do, although naturally we feel it would be worthwhile to inoculate everyone to prevent even one case...