Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While most of the rest of Congress was concerning itself with defense, foreign aid, and civil rights, one Senator launched a vehement single-handed campaign to prevent the renaming of the Clearwater National Forest to honor the late Bernard DeVoto. To be sure, there were many other instances of Congressional inanity (the House changed the name of its custodians to "maintenance superintendents") but this spiteful action prevented honoring a man who well deserved the memorial...
...Russians charged that the United States urged Turkey to launch an attack with "lightning speed," in order to confront the U.N. with a situation whereby the world organization "may have no time to take steps to prevent aggression...
...important purpose of the new Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. is to prevent students from gaining "a false impression of the business world," Dustin M. Burke '52 director of Student Employment, told the Student Council last night...
...student at Oxford, Quintin McGarel Hogg was enraged when his father accepted a peerage, which he foresaw would banish him into the "political ghetto'' of the House of Lords and prevent him from becoming Prime Minister (TIME, Sept. 30). Now Viscount Hailsham, Lord President of the Council, chairman of the Conservative Party and a remorseless Tory, Hogg was asked on a BBC show if he, though a member of the House of Lords, could hope to become Prime Minister. "Nobody but a fool," his lordship blurted, "would want to be Prime Minister...
...Watch was originally thrown together as a force of Highland police to prevent cattle stealing, soon became a regiment. Unkilted and wearing khaki battle dress instead, the Watch fought in World War II in Greece, Tobruk, Alamein, Burma, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, Germany. The regiment's most famed legendary wartime exploit: arresting General Eisenhower while he was roaming Gibraltar in civilian clothes (Ike was held, fuming and incommunicado, in the guardhouse for almost four hours...