Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting of the Social Relations Society, Pettigrew said that the findings of his three week field trip to Little Rock indicated that violence arose only when the possibility of definite action to prevent integration might be taken. He asserted that Governor Faubus had given the people hope that such definite steps could be taken. Violence based upon definite expectation is a rational...
Senaga promptly took advantage of an assembly bylaw that requires a two-thirds quorum for a no-confidence vote. Every time the opposition majority tried to vote him out, Senaga's twelve assemblymen simply walked out of the meeting. When the opposition tried physically to prevent Senaga's men from leaving, they took to the windows; one Senaga assemblyman once left his trousers behind in the tight clutch of an anti-Senaga assemblyman who had tried to stop...
...President has been taking anti-clotting drugs of the coumarin family six days a week ever since his 1955 heart attack. They have been shown to be highly effective in cutting down recurrence of clots caused by embolism (TIME, Feb. 4), but it is not yet certain that they prevent thrombosis...
...literary floes have broken loose from the icecap of Soviet culture and drifted into open water. Last year Moscow allowed the serialization of Not by Bread Alone, Vladimir Dudintsev's harsh novel of genius frustrated by Red bureaucracy (TIME, Oct. 21), later condemned the book but could not prevent publication in the West. Now another furor is brewing over the appearance in Italy of a novel by distinguished Russian Poet-Translator Boris Pasternak. Reason why the Italian publication is "unauthorized"' by Moscow is evident from lines such as these: "Marxism is not sufficiently master of itself...
Having freshmen in the Houses would give them a more intellectually and socially fruitful year, and a much more pleasant first impression of Harvard. But even if housing limitations do prevent the institution of this suggestion, the Administration should stop deluding itself and the freshmen in proclaiming the advantages of a year together in the Yard...