Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primarily one of timing of more massive Government intervention as well as of the form this intervention should take-a tax cut, a sharp increase in public works or a combination of the two. In the last analysis we have now both the weapons and the will to prevent any serious deterioration of the present fundamentally healthy economic situation...
Bourguiba even set a time limit within which Britain and the U.S. must agree to support Tunisia against France, "to prevent eyes from turning toward the Communist bloc or other countries." Announcing that he had canceled Tunisia's March 20 Independence Day ceremonies "because we are no longer convinced we are truly free," Bourguiba declared: "March 20 is the fatal day. By then we can see what direction we must take. If we cannot find the support of the West, I will be obliged to say that I have made a mistake...
...overkill a very real problem. Before he can decide how much is enough, McElroy needs an overall, unified strategic war plan, has ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to draft one, is considering the appointment of a strategic warfare chief who will delegate roles and missions so as to prevent duplication of effort...
...been sentenced to five years in a concentration camp for K.R.T.D., i.e., "counterrevolutionary Trotskyite activity." This did not shake the boy's faith in the system, or that of his schoolmates, many of whom had been similarly orphaned. Wolfgang worried about Mother sometimes, but not enough to prevent his getting excellent marks...
...father's footsteps when, at 32, he fell ill with thrombophlebitis-inflammation of leg veins, with formation of clots that could be fatal if they reached the lungs. That was 20 years ago. Schulte's physician, Dr. Irving Wright, casting around for a drug to prevent clot formation (none had yet been proved effective in man), appealed to Nobel Prizewinner Charles H. Best, co-discoverer of insulin. He wanted some of the heparin that University of Toronto laboratories had just begun to extract from beef lungs and liver. Dr. Best sent all he could spare...