Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cards--which would probably be like those used at industrial plants and in the armed forces--could prevent interchange of bursar's cards for buying tickets to athletic contests. They would also be useful for general identification...
Next day copies of the Army's "bill of particulars" against McCarthy & Co. were circulated around Capitol Hill. Inevitably the bill leaked out to newsmen. To prevent further "piecemeal leaks," Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, a committee Democrat, released the full text. McCarthy, himself a skillful practitioner of the calculated leak, cried foul. Cohn trumpeted a threat to obstruct the investigation, and demanded an investigation of the leaks. Later he withdrew the threat...
...perched on a hill overlooking miles of slash pine east of Atlanta. Teacher Corinne Clark called the 47 moppets in second grade to order one morning last week. The stack of impressive-looking envelopes at her side, she explained, had been "sent out by the doctors to try to prevent you from having polio." She wanted the children to take the envelopes home to their parents and get their permission to be vaccinated. The youngsters took it all in quietly, asked not a single question...
...threat, it can be ended. The Communist bloc, with its vast resources, can win success by overwhelming, one by one, small bits of freedom. But it is different if we unite. Our purpose is not to extend the fighting, but to end the fighting. Our purpose is not to prevent a peaceful settlement to the forthcoming Geneva Conference, but to create the unity of free wills needed to assure a peaceful settlement which will, in fact, preserve the vital interests...
...Comet's case, a fire or explosion in the engines would be likely to damage the wing. At the time of the Elba crash, De Havilland was in the process of modifying its Comets to guard against this danger-adding armor-plated shields to prevent loosened blades from the turbine from being thrown into the fuel tanks, improving the "engine breathers," installing more fire detectors. These recent changes apparently made no difference in Yoke Yoke's case...