Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader is quite another matter. Because he still has to contend with Dwight Eisenhower's great popularity, Johnson cannot permit White House-Senate relationships to become too strained. Yet he cannot be too soft toward the Administration for fear of antagonizing the liberal Northern Democrats. Finally, he must prevent a legislative deadlock, lest the Democrats be accused of conducting a do-nothing Congress...
...Terrorists closed in on Arris, the administrative center of Aures, poured in repeated volleys of rifle fire. All the inhabitants of Foum-Toub were evacuated, to prevent slaughter or capture by the bandits...
...compensation for shooting
down a Cathay Pacific Skymaster off Hainan Island last July 23, in
which ten passengers (three of them American) lost their lives. Peking
has rejected three U.S. protests, but took the British protest in good
grace and even promised that "measures have been taken to prevent
recurrence of such incidents."
...rarely depends on these choices. But of the nine Senators who died during the Eighty-Third Congress, two Democrats--Lester Hunt of Wyoming and Pat McCarran of Nevada--were replaced by members of the opposite party. The new Democratic governors in four states where Senators are especially feeble may prevent Senate reorganization during the next Congress...
...narrow escape forced the Corporation to take stops to prevent future fires in Harvard's wooden buildings. A fire-proof floor was installed in Mem Hall and Boylston Hall got new brick walls. Fire escapes went in, ropes were provided for dormitory rooms, and ladders and waterproof covers for furniture were placed in the Yard...