Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of U Nu's anger at the army seems rooted in his belief that high officers are in league with U Nu's political rivals to prevent his victory at the next elections-whenever they are held. The army has also embarrassed U Nu by turning up numerous cases of corruption in his government. So far, by general agreement, General Ne Win has served Burma well. He has kept prices generally stable, has cleared miles of hideous Rangoon slums, and moved 100,000 squatters out of the city. The general has not tampered with the courts...
Argonne's new facility contains a series of airtight compartments. Each will be equipped with miniature machines and filled with helium to prevent spontaneous combustion. The ingots of plutonium, about the size of a matchbox, will be handled by remote control, or through the 1,576 "glove ports," where the workers put their hands into long rubber gloves fitted to holes in the glass viewing panels...
While Little Rock stirred, the man who tried to prevent the collapse of the city's schools was elsewhere. In 1955 Little Rock so respected its superintendent of schools and his calm desegregation plan that it named him Man of the Year. Last winter big (6 ft. 3 in., 250 Ibs.), outspoken Virgil Blossom, 52, was forced to leave town. Out of work for nearly six months (and still owed nearly $7,700 by Little Rock), Dr. Blossom has a new job: in July he will take over the semi-integrated schools of San Antonio, which sought him mainly...
...students favored more than the 10 p.m. extension, or if they possibly favored a reduction of parietal hours. Perhaps the restraint was due to their consideration of what is acceptable to the House Masters, but the biased nature of the proposals on the poll could only serve to prevent a true sampling of student opinion on the matter...
...visitors. Poor lighting and insufficient labelling plague many of these exhibitions in the large halls. For example, the nineteen cases of African specimens on the fifth floor are illumined by only two lamps in the center of the room. To make matters worse, the shades are drawn presumabaly to prevent the exhibits from fading...