Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week arrested Finger Man Miranti and Contractor Carlino, charged them with conspiring to obstruct justice by trying to prevent Columnist Riesel's appearance before a Federal Grand Jury investigating labor rackets. Agents also locked up three material witnesses who knew enough to be "hot" too. To Columnist Riesel, Telvi and his confederates were "complete and absolute strangers." But he was sure that their trail would lead to labor racketeers. "They picked on me," he told reporters, "because they wanted to silence the papers...
Faster Sail. An experimental rectangular sail on a U-shaped rig (see cut) adds speed and helps prevent boats from tipping, says its inventor, General Electric Co. Engineer Burnice D. Bedford. The new shape spills wind underneath the sail rather than over it, causing a "lifting" effect. It measures 120 sq. ft. v. 72 sq. ft. for a triangular sail on the same boat; with its rig it weighs 78 lbs. v. a conventional sail's 25-30 lbs. Bedford hopes to reduce the weight, patent and market a still better sail within a year...
...when he left office on Jan. 20, 1953. Fondly remembered is the way he met international crises with sharp decision: the atomic bomb, the Berlin blockade, the Marshall Plan, Greek-Turkish aid, Korea. Fading into the mist of memory is the fact that his Administration not only failed to prevent domestic crisis but produced it wholesale: mink coats, Deep Freezes, red herrings, limited war, peacetime recession, agricultural waste, steel seizure. Since he left the White House, Democrats have come to look on Truman as a character, sometimes amusing, always indomitable, certainly admirable, almost always lovable...
...five years since he wrested control of the Florence city government from the Communists, Sicilian-born Giorgio La Pira has conscientiously followed this simple approach to public problems and private funds. With a cheerful disregard for legality, the onetime professor of Roman law has seized bankrupt factories to prevent dismissal of their employees, requisitioned private dwellings to house the poor and financed public works so expensive that they have exhausted Florence's legal borrowing power until the year...
...Dick Russell summed up the prospects for civil rights in the 85th, "that when such nefarious schemes as these are presented in the future-and we hear that they will be-there will be members of the Senate who will resort to every weapon at their command to prevent such proposals being imposed on the people...