Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...term, but it would be better for the Harvard audience if the term's film fare were balanced. Some protection is necessary for late term showings. The organizations cannot solve the problem by any agreement among themselves because they have no power of enforcement. There is nothing to prevent cutthroat rescheduling. Once an organization has contracted for a film likely to net several hundred dollars profit, it is unrealistic to expect that organization to give it up on moral grounds. Nor can we expect an organization to agree at the beginning of the year not to try to get such...
...Newest wrinkle in aircraft carriers, designed to prevent landing planes from crashing into others parked on the deck...
...pressure on. At 19:44 Russell went out for a sixth skater, and the Indians forced two face-offs in the Crimson zone. On the last, the puck slid by an open cage, but the Harvard defense pushed Dartmouth's Doc Gale just far enough from the rubber to prevent the tying goal...
Defensive Arm. "In June 1950, following the aggressive attack on the Republic of Korea," he said, "the U.S. Seventh Fleet was instructed both to prevent attack upon Formosa and also to insure that Formosa should not be used as a base of operations [by the Chinese Nationalists] against the Chinese Communist mainland. This has meant, in effect, that the U.S. Navy was required to serve as a defensive arm of Communist China ... There is no longer any logic or sense in a condition that required the U.S. Navy to assume defensive responsibilities on behalf of the Chinese Communists. This permitted...
...constitution is a "fraud," he cried, and demanded Positive Action ("strikes based on perfect non-violence") to prevent its being accepted. Positive Action was a flop-and Nkrumah went to jail. Police who arrested him found in his pocket an unsigned membership card of the British Communist Party...