Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...checks after July 15, the changeover day, without marking N.F. (New Francs) in front of the figures. Shopkeepers may try to raise prices under the guise of rounding off the price of an article that cost 450 old francs to a simple five francs in the new currency. To prevent this, the government for a time is requiring all price tags to bear both old and new prices. Workers accustomed to receive 40,000 francs a month may grumble at only 400 -until they discover a bottle of red wine now costs only a franc and the resurrected sou will...
Cried B-G: "Do not defile the memory of the slaughtered millions in the campaign you have started here, which everyone knows is an electoral campaign." Defending the contract, he said: "I have learned one thing from the appalling atrocities of Hitler: to make every possible effort to prevent such a disaster falling on the people of Israel. For although Hitler was defeated, his disciples in the Middle East still live, and it is they who rule in the Arab countries that surround us. Israel does not belong to any alliance. We, more than any other nation, need friends...
...youth he suffered from rheumatic fever, once overheard the family doctor tell his parents: "Your boy will never live to be 20." Now the father of a 20-year-old son, Hansen lives with a heart condition and the boyhood-inspired fear that his heart may stop beating. To prevent this, he says that he hopes to "will" his heart to keep beating, just as he can "will" it to stop beating...
...covered wagon and a troupe of horses from a 4-H club. And to avoid frequent scene changes, he transferred the action in Acts I and III to the outside of the Polka saloon, constructed a typical Hollywood false-front street-all of it heavily anchored down to prevent the set from blowing away in the waspish mountain winds that swirl into the amphitheater every evening...
Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin might not have been overjoyed with the heavy, static, wide-screen pageant that Producer Sam Goldwyn and Director Otto Preminger have fashioned from his folk opera but nothing can prevent the show's songs from tingling the spine. Standout performances: Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey...