Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mania reached unbelievable dimensions . . . This un believable suspicion was cleverly taken advantage of by the abject provocateur and vile enemy Beria, who had murdered thousands of Communists and loyal Soviet people . . . The question arises . . . Why did we not do something earlier, during Stalin's life, in order to prevent the loss of innocent lives? It was because Stalin personally supervised [the purges], and the majority of the Politburo members did not at the time know all of the circumstances . . . and could not therefore intervene...
...tempted. By that time you would already have incurred a serious danger of interiorly yielding to temptation, and the seeds of future temptation would already be implanted in your soul. Granted the normal tendencies of human nature, it is unlikely that an individual would be strong-minded enough to prevent these evils by leaving the theater as soon as the first signs of danger appeared." Anyone who is certain he will not be tempted by a given picture is morally free to attend it. "But," says Dulles, "there is need of caution here. Most of us tend to exaggerate, rather...
...this new world of hydrogen bomb plus missile, the President had come to a further basic and revolutionary conclusion: modern war is unthinkable and must not be allowed to happen. The way to prevent it is to shape the U.S. armed forces so that they can clearly strike back instantly and devastatingly at any aggressor, thus make him realize that if he begins a war, it will be concluded-as Air-Power Man Curtis LeMay says-without "profit" to himself. Therefore, for the first time in military annals, the primary mission of the U.S. armed forces is not to prepare...
...Reich, 59, once-famed follower of Sigmund Freud, lately better known for unorthodox sex and energy theories, drew a sentence (suspended) of two years in prison from U.S. District Judge George C. Sweeney in Portland, Me. for violating an injunction by distributing "orgone energy accumulators," touted to heal burns, prevent cancer...
...contends that people join the Advocate or the Signet Society merely for prestige. It might have added WHRB, Phillips Brooks House, the CRIMSON, and i.e., (see front page). This, however, doesn't necessarily prevent creative activity, although it will always remain as a condition of existence...