Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev's choice of Leningrad, Russia's second city (pop. 4,800,000), was in itself cunning. The "plotters," said Khrushchev, had timed their attack on the Central Committee to coincide with the 250th anniversary (June 23) of Leningrad,* to prevent Presidium members from taking part in the celebrations in that city. Reason: the anti-party group was "particularly gravely guilty of the most flagrant errors and shortcomings which took place in the past" in Leningrad...
...tough by turns-at one point he threatened not to campaign for the Christian Democrats in next fall's general election-Erhard never ceased pressing for his law. Last week, while Bonn sweltered under heat so intense that firemen were obliged to water the Bundestag roof to prevent it from dripping tar, the 60-year-old Economics Minister finally won the day. The law he got-which provided for a number of permissible cartels including "crisis" cartels and retail-price-fixing rings-was less than he had hoped for. Nonetheless, said Erhard, "with all its deficiencies, this is still...
...economists, alarm over automatic wage increases and administered prices and the cost-push inflation they cause seems exaggerated. They point to the absence of factors that produce a runaway inflation, notably a shortage of goods and an excess of money. The soft spots in the economy are expected to prevent major wage increases from spreading through the entire economy, as in the past, just as the ample supply of goods is expected to check overall price boosts. Last week outgoing Treasury Secretary George Humphrey told the Byrd committee probing Administration fiscal policies that the Administration's tight-money policies...
...liberal direction in dealing with cases bearing on the rights of individuals v. government (TIME, July I) last week brought swift executive, legislative and judicial reaction. Items: ¶ Heavily underscoring President Eisenhower's approval, U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell hurried before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, urged legislation to prevent a "serious miscarriage of justice" arising from the Supreme Court's Jencks decision, which required pertinent FBI files to be turned over directly to defendants in criminal cases. One Rhode Island court, said Brownell, might well free four convicted kidnapers if the Government refused to turn over...
Much modern fiction is literature of escape-from class, race, creed, country, or even the sex in which the writer was born. The disadvantage of the escapee is that he is obliged to change his clothes to prevent detection. Novelist Phyllis Bentley has chosen to wear the sober broadcloth of her native Yorkshire, to remain and write about what she knows-the Yorkshire Tyke (English slang for York-shireman). In 19 books during the past 35 years she has "celebrated her chosen slab of earth-Yorkshire's West Riding...