Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were some happy coincidental signs along the route: in Tucson Ike appeared after a drenching, three-day rain; at Garden City, Kans. his arrival was heralded by a welcome but blinding snowstorm, which nevertheless did not prevent some 6,000 shivering Kansans from greeting the President at the airport. So fierce was the blizzard that crash trucks lined the Garden City runway to spotlight a path for Presidential Pilot Bill Draper, who babied the Columbine into a soft snap of a landing under weather conditions that gave the shakes to a group of Air Force pilots waiting and watching...
Cross-Questioning. As the election campaign proceeded, grave dangers assailed Gomulka's experiment in limited democracy. Communist candidates were greeted with such cries as "What did you do to prevent the bad years?" and "I'm for Gomulka, but right after he came in prices went up." Listening coldly to candidates' ingratiating speeches, voters debated which was the better way to manifest their disgust with Communism: to boycott the elections, or to cross off all the Communist names at the top of the ballots. Their defiance was subtly encouraged by the Stalinist Communist leaders whom Gomulka supplanted...
Unfortunately, the speech will probably mean little in practice. Because the President expects only unity, not conformity, does not mean that Red China will be admitted to the United Nations. The President's censure of self-rightiousness probably will not prevent John Foster Dulles from demanding special privileges in NATO. The moral approval of sharing burdens will not make the burdens much easier to share economically...
...Secretary Benson they have been intensified. If the large companies continue to receive Forest Service preference, the small operator will eventually be eliminated; the large companies will, to a great degree, be able to control the price of lumber in this country. The American people must act soon to prevent this lumber monopoly by demanding equitable rights for all logging companies in our National Forests...
...best to prepare the city against Persian siege tactics. To keep the city walls from collapsing even if they were undermined, the commander ordered the street nearest the most vulnerable wall filled with earth, heaping it up over the house roofs to the top of the wall itself. To prevent the house walls from buckling, they were reinforced from the inside with earthen buttresses. This was the treatment applied to Dura's synagogue. As a result, when the city finally fell about A.D. 256, the synagogue's paintings "were protected," Professor Kraeling writes, "from the ravages...