Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handing out leaflets advertising massage parlors. One spiel: "Check it out! Don't let Freud tell you what to do with it." At a recent briefing, some of the city's hosts for the convention were asked by New York officials "to do everything you can to prevent the delegates from getting mugged, so they take away a good impression of the city...
...station at Beltsville, Md., is currently working on hormones that will prevent insects from molting, or shedding their outer covering, prior to passing on to the next stage of growth, and Martin Jacobson has applied for a patent for a juvenile hormone that affects house, stable and face flies, some mosquitoes and the fire ant. Taking a different approach, Entomologist William Bowers, of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, has isolated two substances from ageratum, a flowering plant, that interfere with an insect's production of juvenile hormones. When these antihormones are applied to immature cotton stainers and Mexican...
...prevent Konig's spirits from soaring unexpectedly, Lieberman saddles him with other problems: two incipient scandals in his own department and a particularly troublesome batch of mismatched body parts dredged up from the East River. As if all this were not enough, Konig's daughter has fallen into the hands of some hoodlum revolutionaries. They make Konig listen in on the phone while they torture...
...outcome of the talks, but expressed optimism that "the process is in motion" for a peaceful transition to majority rule in Rhodesia. He also discussed the possibility of resettling white Rhodesians in Western Europe and South Africa, perhaps with American aid. For his part, Vorster sought to prevent the isolation of South Africa and win acceptance for its policies. In particular, Pretoria would like an end to the U.S. arms embargo and the granting of Export-Import Bank loans...
Vorster's response to the Soweto massacre was not a very promising omen for peace in the area. The way to prevent more such violence in the future, he declared, was not to make concessions to blacks on the teaching of Afrikaans but to take even tougher law-and-order measures. Before leaving for West Germany, he appointed Petrus Malan Cillie, a white Transvaal judge, to launch a judicial inquiry into the riots. Both white and black newspapers found the action insensitive and called for a multiracial commission. Asked the Johannesburg Star in an editorial: "Is it possible...