Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Defensively the Tigers, anchored by All-Ivy performer Ted Schiller, are solid and experienced--they stand fourth in the country in pass defense--but a defense generally can't score points, just prevent them...
...crossing are based on familiar scholarship But while returning from Africa on a modern freighter, Haley also forced himself to sleep half naked on a rough plank in the ship's airless hold. It was his way of trying to dissolve time and the cultural insulation that can prevent a writer from telling his story. What a story it turns out to be. The 17-year-old Kunta Kinte is sold to a Spotsylvania County, Va., planter for $850 and renamed Toby. But Kunta does not tame easily. Following his fourth escape attempt, half his right foot...
Eleven students, in a courageous show of support for the striking workers, were arrested while attempting to prevent a delivery truck from crossing picket lines near a Brown dining hall last Thursday. The unprecedented arrests by local police of students on the Providence campus were directly authorized by the Brown administration...
...Angolan civil war had an additional effect on southern Africa: it brought Soviet power and influence, partly in the form of Cuban troops, into the area in strength. Inevitably, Washington became concerned about the region's vulnerability to foreign influence. Kissinger wanted to prevent the whole of southern Africa from falling ? eventually, and almost by default ? into the Soviet orbit; he wanted to head off what appeared to be inevitable race war; and he wanted to create circumstances in which moderate black regimes would have a chance to endure. With these motives in mind, he met John Vorster...
...first black policeman. Twice more-after Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968 and the police shooting of a Port Gibson black in 1969-the N.A.A.C.P. again turned the boycott screw. But by then the Mississippi legislature had enacted a civil and criminal law banning any "conspiracy" to prevent a citizen from exercising a "lawful trade or calling." The antiboycott bill was backed by then State Representative Robert L. Vaughn, one of the boycotted businessmen...