Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Motion For Preliminary Injunction." But Case 3113 was far from routine; it brought to a 'historic showdown the issue between the U.S. and Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, who had defied the law of the land in calling out his National Guard to prevent school integration...
...sandstone building. Inside the school, white and Negro students heard Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker tell an assembly that "You have nothing to fear from my soldiers, . . ." but "I would be less than honest if I did not tell you that I intend to use all means necessary to prevent any interference with the execution of your school board's order...
...Orval Faubus, until today civilian commander of the Guard, called up some of the guardsmen Sept. 2, he said, to prevent Negroes from entering Central High School and to prevent violence...
...opponents for governor next year] will tear me to shreds." That was it: at 9 o'clock on the eve of school opening, Arkansas National Guard troops clanked into Little Rock. An hour later Orval Faubus appeared on television, explained that he had called out the militia to prevent violence...
...office, faced with galloping inflation and declining gold and dollar reserves, he first demanded a 10% cut in the government budget, then succeeded in devaluing the franc by 20% without ever using the horrid word "devaluation." ("Every country has its totems-holy things which are not mentioned.") To prevent a new round of inflation, he now demands selected price controls and a six months "wage truce" from labor. The latest Bank of France statement shows France for the first time in two years taking in appreciably more foreign exchange than it pays...