Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the new autonomy in the Dark Continent is the principle laid down by Gaston Defferre, who sees the Algerian rebellion as an ominous object lesson: "To prevent is better than to cure...
...broadcasting industry again demonstrated its squeamishness as CBS cancelled Eric Severeid's broadcast last Wednesday evening criticizing the State Department's decision to prevent U.S. newsmen from entering China. Edward R. Murrow, whose criticism of the same policy on the same network was allowed to run because it was read by a different editor, has reportedly been severely criticized by top CBS officials for "editorializing...
...talking as if the U.S. and not the British-French were responsible for the Suez catastrophe when the U.S. had striven desperately to prevent it, even Mike Mansfield left himself open to the counterblast of Wisconsin's Alex Wiley that the patently anti-Dulles nature of the stalling on the crisis was "blatant, befuddled badgering," and that the U.S. people would so judge...
...10th Parachute Division. Massu moved in a rock-hard force of 20,000 green- and red-bereted paratroopers, legionnaires and spahis to take over the city of Algiers and its teeming Casbah. Troops stood outside stores and restaurants frisking every passerby, man and woman. All parcels were opened to prevent bombs from being planted in public places by anybody, European or Moslem. At least two soldiers rode every streetcar and bus. A constant cover of helicopters hovered over the city. Essential municipal services were kept running by troops or French civilian volunteers. Soldiers ran bakeries, distributed food, while schoolboys delivered...
...improve his reputation as a Moral Authority, a position which in those days was exalted in men's minds, but did not pay well. Many said that this man, coming as he did from a land between two worlds, would be a bridge between the two, and would prevent war breaking...