Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smoker is illegal under the Massachusetts law which forbids serving beer to minors under any circumstances. The Alcoholic Beverages Commission will not act because J. Vernon Patrick '52, Secretary of the Union, has already bought the beer privately. But the ABC says the police can prevent a minor from getting beer, even though the Smoker is listed as a private party...
...consider it. (Molotov was more expansive later when visiting Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. asked if there might be a local cease-fire to permit the bloodless evacuation of the Tachens. "If Chiang Kai-shek should desire to withdraw his forces from any islands, hardly anyone would try to prevent him from doing so," said Molotov dryly...
Said Pearson: "I think that a strong case can be made for the neutralization of Formosa both in order to prevent any assault upon it by Communist forces and also so that it will not be used as a base for invasion of the mainland...
...budget to $700,000 in five years and tour Europe and the U.S. These ideas sounded too ambitious even for Miss Ima's board. Fricsay left Houston in a huff last December, and last week, touring Switzerland on midwinter vacation, he cabled that his rheumatic arm would prevent his return for the scheduled spring season...
...long ago learned," hem wrote, "that the rebels and heretics of today are the leaders accepted by tomorrow. The stamp of the New England Puritan aristocracy is all over it--its economic conservatism along with its tolerance of dissent." The Bulletin refused to print his article, fearing it would prevent conservative alumni from contributing to the Tercentenary Fund. But later it appeared in the Advocate and in the Nation...