Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of bilateral non-aggression pacts between Red China and other Asian countries, seemingly a harmless notion. But such pacts would exclude from Asia the protective power of the West, because membership in Nehru's system involved a commitment not to join in other alliances. It would prevent China's more nervous neighbors from joining together in self-protection, leave the Communists free to pick off, one by one, in the classic totalitarian manner, each nonaggressive neighbor...
...Representatives, had been scheduled to speak at the forum, devoted to a discussion of "Democratic Prospects for 1954," along with Schlesinger and State Senator Mario Umana '36. Umana attended, but Democratic campaign headquarters told Young Democrats' President Frederick J. Willman '56 yesterday morning that previously arranged engagements would prevent Murphy from appearing...
After learning that Murphy did not plan to attend the meeting, the Young Democrats talked most of the afternoon to several Democratic campaign officials in an unsuccessful effort to induce Murphy to be present. But Democratic headquarters insisted that a television appear and and later "private engagements" would prevent him from making even a brief appearance...
...make this unsalted. monotonous regimen (usually prescribed to keep down water retention in heart cases) less wearisome and more nourishing. The trouble has been that because it lacks protein the rice-fruit menu causes the dieter to burn up his own body proteins. Metabolism experts have tried to prevent this in Brantner's case by adding two amino acids, lysine and threonine, to his diet. Also, he has had a break because his rice dishes prepared in the center's elaborate metabolic kitchens have included such delicacies as olives, mushrooms and an apple pie (made with a rice...
...birth in the estate lake or brought them up secretly for years in locked rooms. "A maid who did not offer her a cup of tea in the proper way was sent off to some remote village and perhaps separated from her family forever; gardeners who failed to prevent the plucking of a tulip [were] flogged...