Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quick to tell the U.N. that the U.S. was " very sorry indeed" about the March 1 injuries. The 236 Marshallese citizens on Rongelap and Utirik were, he said, getting the best of medical care and should suffer no "permanent aftereffects." Furthermore, the U.S. would do "everything possible to prevent any recurrence of possible danger," would instruct the Marshallese in anti-radioactivity safety measures, and see to it that no island citizen suffered financial loss because radioactivity had driven him off his land...
Even if physical facilities are equal, said the court, there are intangible factors which prevent "separate" from being "equal." "To separate [Negro children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone . . . We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal...
...short, Taft was a big enough man to prevent the Old Guard from passing the limits of responsible partisan competition. But his death removed this check, and allowed the Jenners and McCarthys of the Old Guard to plow on unrestrained. It is they who must be understood, to be better combatted. The Taft Story tells much about their dead leader. White could now make an even better contribution to understanding American politics if he could use his background in Taft and Congress to explain the more difficult, and currently more important story, of the people Taft...
Soil in the Trouser Cuffs. Whenever a body is found after sudden, violent or unexplained death, one of the 24 medical examiners must be on the spot before it is moved. With routine examination of all bodies destined for cremation (to prevent destruction of evidence), this means that 20,000 of the city's annual 100,000 deaths are checked. About 350 involve homicide. Every day, from ten to 20 painstaking autopsies are performed; each body is carefully examined not only for poisons but for hidden signs of wounds, or for internal evidence of strangulation (which may have been...
Merchant ships become obsolete after 20 years, Murray reminded the Senators. Since most of the U.S. fleet was built during World War II, keels must be laid at the rate of 60 a year to prevent the merchant fleet from losing 81% of its ships between...