Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away, things are likely to go wrong. Hagerty was in Paris preparing for the NATO conference when Ike suffered his stroke, and Associate Press Secretary Anne Wheaton, a competent woman who was Hagerty's own choice for the job, had neither the training nor the influence to prevent a memorable press foul...
Dartmouth College has imposed a limit of two guests per student for Winter Carnival in an effort to prevent a repeat of last year's overflow turnout...
...these measures, the urgency of which the Masters are well aware, will come to nothing if admissions expand faster than housing. An admissions policy geared to the University's capacities rather than its hopes will prevent seniors from leaving and thus weakening the University's best asset--the House system...
...that night it became clear to Lenin that harassment and threats would not prevent the SR majority from enacting a whole series of resolutions that would have the effect of law. His tactic: an order to the Bolshevik Deputies to walk out of the Assembly. After some hesitation, the Left SRs followed them. In the hall, the sailors and Red soldiers now threw off all restraint. They leaped through the barriers, carried their rifles cocked along the corridors, stormed into the galleries. In their seats the Deputies were motionless, tragically mute. We were isolated from the world, just...
Photographs also enable the admissions committee to prevent unnecessary friction which this diversity might otherwise entail. It can forestall rooming situations in which instant hostility would prevent eventual acceptance...