Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, if distributed at home and abroad, could be an effective weapon for us. The publisher's price [$5] will prevent many from buying it. The solution is a subsidized paperback 50? edition with worldwide, free foreign-language copies. Since the U.S.S.R. holds and refuses payment of royalties owed American authors whose works have been published in Russia, the Pasternak royalties could be distributed among these unpaid American authors and credited to the balances owed them by the Russians...
Hamilton Richards Jr. '60 suffered a fractured thigh shortly after 6 p.m. when he fell from his motorcycle at the corner of Memorial Drive and DeWolfe Street. Richards, who was heading west on Mem Drive, apparently skidded when he applied his brakes to prevent colliding with a car pulling out from DeWolfe Street...
Miss Miller said she had waited for a stream of cars, but did not see the bicycle when she started the left turn. When she noticed it, she stopped the car in time to prevent a collision, but not before Miss Rawle had skidded in an attempt to stop...
...Maria Schell) working as a nurse in a line hospital in Yugoslavia is kidnapped by partisan guerrillas and forced to tend their wounded. At first she refuses, tries to escape, but gradually she comes to see that the partisans have as much of a claim to her ability to prevent suffering as her countrymen have. She is traitorously happy with the roving bands of peasant soldiers until one day a German prisoner is captured who shames her patriotism to the forefront of her thoughts. She manages for him to escape, though refusing to go herself...
After waiting in line outside, one is blindfolded with a private toilet article. The pledge is then led in, is permitted to strip to his shorts, and is led to the "game room," where he kneels on ground saltines for an hour and a half. To prevent a sense of boredom from interfering with his agnoy during this period, a scratched record player is played, which repeats itself several times a minute. After this, the expectant brother passes down the stairs between a gauntlet of paddlers. He is then interrogated and brain-washed, after which he stands in a stairwell...