Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many months the U.S. had been resisting the idea of a "conference at the summit." Those months were the critical period when the issue of rearming West Germany hung in the balance. The U.S.S.R. made it menacingly plain that it would do everything it could and dared to prevent German rearmament. The Soviet attitude stirred neutralists and others to support a "conference at the summit" as a substitute for German rearmament. This sentiment was so strong that even Sir Winston Churchill repeatedly urged such a conference, if only to prove that Russian peace talk was insincere. The U.S. refused...
Your correspondent's assertion that unmarried mothers are heroines in Sweden is pure nonsense. What is true, however, is that Swedish society is endeavoring to prevent children from suffering from a misstep or misfortune of their mothers. The responsibilities, financially or otherwise, of fathers of illegitimate children are enforced both by legislation and public opinion. This may, however, not be the case in regard to the quotation extracted from a 19-year-old boy who evidently belongs to the category that breeds juvenile delinquents. Juvenile delinquency is perhaps also one of the elements of the sphere of public morality...
...available for all by August at the latest. In her own defense of the voluntary system, Mrs. Hobby has pointed out how well the voluntary administration of penicillin shots was carried out in 1952. She forgets, however, that even then Health Service officials required stringent controls on distribution to prevent black markets...
Even on the beat, the police's primary concern is precautionary and not punitive. Patrolmen attend meetings and dances (center left) seeking to prevent trouble, and lock windows and doors in rooms to prevent thefts. "We worry about this even more than the students," said one officer...
Schlesinger was forced to agree that centralization of power could lead to evils, but he argued that a certain minimum of centralization was necessary. "Government in the 20th century must maintain a certain military strength and must control certain aspects of spending to prevent an economic breakdown," he said. "These are minimal requirements which we must balance against the tendency toward totalitarianism...