Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a half century of combating the grey squirrel, the experts are ready to give up. It is cheaper to treat the damage, Bell Labs has decided, than to try to prevent it. Said Engineer Smith last week, noting the reports of squirrel assaults on Wisconsin cable: "It's hopeless; we're suspending study of the problem...
These questions were contained in a circular sent to 470 U.S. heart specialists by an organization called the American Research Foundation of Princeton, N.J. Last week the American Medical Association indignantly advised doctors what to do with the questionnaires: throw them in the wastebasket, "to prevent the hysteria that such information could foment...
...work under Sherman Adams are no mere spear-carrying extras; they include some of the key men in Government. Staff channels are not so rigid as to prevent any staffer from going straight to the President. Some, by the nature of their duties, have greater need than others for direct access (see dotted lines on chart). But it is the foolish staff member, or, indeed, the Cabinet officer, who fails to keep Adams fully informed about discussions with President Eisenhower...
France and Germany have squabbled over the Saar since the division of Charle-magnefe empire. France, which would no longer be in the same industrial league as West Germany if the Saar's coal and steel changed hands, concedes that it cannot prevent the Saarlanders from rejoining their kinsmen at some future time, but it insists on a guaranteed share of Saar production, and German nationalists noisily object. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, a good European, believes that Franco-German understanding is more important than anything that impedes it, and accordingly will not be trying to hurry the Saar into reunification...
...child, the hardest part of an operation usually comes before the surgeon's knife has touched him. The strange sights and smells, the anesthesiologist's impatient coaxing, the confining anesthesia mask that is pressed against his face are all things that fill the youngster with terror. To prevent psychic traumas, reports Medical News, doctors have devised a series of toys that administer anesthesia without tears...