Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become quite clear the Post is a "McCarthy paper." Led by its new owner, John Fox '29, multi-millionaire oilman and financial wizard, the Post has not only joined the Senator's crusade against Communism, but started crusades of its own: to ban books from Boston's libraries, prevent the appointment of James B. Conant as U. S. High Commissioner in Germany, and unseat the management of Harvard University. To accomplish his purposes, Fox has accepted severe financial losses, for his competitors can offer advertisers morning and afternoon papers for the price of one. But he has held...
...officials excuse the ineffectuality of the police in protecting the goal posts. "If we told them to draw their clubs and start swinging it would be a mess . . . It would take 200 of them to prevent it . . . Why start a riot...
This week of confusion and contradiction, about a matter of such primary importance, put the Eisenhower Administration in its worst light to date. Only the President could halt the hand-wringing with an authoritative summary of the U.S.-Russian atomic position. He tried to prevent a repetition of it by ordering all Administration officials to clear all future statements on the subject with Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss, who knows what he is talking about and who bears his awful responsibility without jittering...
...anti-Communist P.W.s under some form of duress, was not convinced at all. "Recent developments," he said in faraway Bombay, "have made me wonder if the U.S. is serious about an armistice . . . One has the suspicion that an attempt is being made, certainly by the South Korean government, to prevent the commission from functioning...
...available for every youngster whose worried parents want it. Test areas will be chosen for scientific reasons, and within those areas the test groups will be picked the same way. Estimated cost of the program: $7,500,000 of $26.5 million which the foundation has earmarked for polio prevention. The rest of the money will go for gamma globulin, which O'Connor calls "a stopgap measure" because it can only make polio less severe, not prevent...