Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outstanding Crimson halfback named Jim Damis impressed everyone at the jayvee football team's opener on Soldiers Field yesterday, but he wasn't enough to prevent the Crimson squad from losing to Brown, 14 to 0, on two first period touchdowns...
...complaints came principally because of this crowding, rather than from objectors to the sometimes illicit purchase of beer. "This is certainly one thing we have tried to prevent with the new coupons," Heaman added...
...much of it over Premier Yoshida, his independent and often highhanded conduct, his refusal to appear before a committee investigating reports of large-scale bribery involving Yoshida's administration and shipping interests. Some of his opponents paraded the streets and demonstrated before the Premier's house to prevent his departure, but Yoshida felt that the good-will trip could no longer be delayed, and deemed himself the only man with the reputation and power to make it worth while...
...Among potential suicidal types are: every depressive person; all who have tried it once; those who talk of it, and especially if they do so with fascination; those who have lost interest in things they once highly prized. "Troubles, and even illness, actually help to prevent suicide. There's nothing like a few fleas to keep a yellow dog from brooding over the fact that he is a yellow...
...proposal for controling the atomic bomb. In light of Russia's unrelenting barrage of anti-American sentiment, the present plan is probably no more that a decoy to divert interest from President Eisenhower's suggestion of an atomic peace pool. Or it could be a last minute attempt to prevent the United States from winning full support for European defense unity. But because of the sudden reversal in the Soviet position, there must be a careful examination of the new offering to discover any real difference in the Russian attitude...