Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grand evaluator of the 1954 Salk vaccine trials. He warned against indiscriminately beginning vaccination programs (i.e., giving the first of two shots) until the return of cold weather. Local health officers, he said, must weigh the risk of provoking polio against the number of cases they hope to prevent...
...Beelee Graham, the American clairvoyant?" Thanks to a wave of advance publicity and hundreds of portrait posters pasted throughout Paris and the provinces, most Frenchmen thought they knew who Billy was. The fact that few precisely understood his religious role or the meaning of his evangelistic crusade did not prevent them from according him a hysterical, slightly disoriented acclaim that surprised no ons more than the handsome evangelist...
...guaranteed annual wage (G.A.W.) was practical: "Industry can afford it." His busy educational division churned out pamphlets, posters and propaganda. Auto workers were warned repeatedly that growing automation would cause increasing layoffs unless the workers were protected by G.A.W.; the nation at large was told that G.A.W. could prevent another depression. "Unemployment," cried Reuther, "breeds more unemployment." When negotiations began this spring, Reuther was ready, and Ford workers voted 96.2% to strike if need...
...France, married a French girl, and wants to work with the French. There was no sign that the French colons appreciated their good fortune. The diehard Présence Française called on all European settlers (250,000 in a nation of 3,300,000) "to unite to prevent the application of all measures interfering with their dignity, their persons or their wealth...
There was opera, too. Vienna had its operatic golden age (1897-1907) under Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler, a perfectionist who, so legend has it, personally walked Brünnhilde's horse around the Ringstrasse before the performance of Götterdämmerung in order to prevent stage accidents. Vienna was never especially fond of innovations, but some became famous. When Soprano Maria Jeritza was rehearsing Tosca with a Scarpia who knew not his own strength, she landed flat on her face on the floor just before her big aria, Vissi d'arte. She sang it from there...