Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take ads in morning, evening and Sunday papers as a unit. Furthermore, said the Government, the Star forced subscribers to buy the three papers, instead of offering the papers individually. The Government also charged that when the Kansas City Journal-Post died in 1942, the Star helped prevent a new paper from moving in by buying its equipment, then jacked up its own subscription price...
After a month of much squawking, which evidently surprised College officials no end, the once rigid, now plastic parietal rules may undergo yet another revision. The return of Saturday's afternoon privilege is a welcome concession. It is all the more welcome because whatever liberality moved it may prevent the restrictions on Saturday evening permissions the Housemasters Committee was threatening a few weeks...
President Conant told the Foreign Policy Association in November 1944 that Germany's industrial power must be done away with for a generation and that he would "not rely on political subdivisions of enemy territory" to prevent a third world...
...their side, just because that was the simplest thing to do. Not so simple would be the Morse-born problem of maintaining a Republican majority on all committees. With the Senate divided 48 Republicans, 47 Democrats and one Morse, the G.O.P. leadership would have to reshuffle committee sizes to prevent Morse from holding the balance of power on important groups...
Then came a shocker: "If Nunn May wants to go to Russia, and the Russians want him, there is no general power to prevent a British subject from leaving the United Kingdom, with or without a passport. Nunn May does not have a valid passport. Refusal to grant him one could hamper him, but would not prevent him from leaving...