Word: prevented
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...Mild Gentleman. The Arabs who first made this discovery were the Baath Socialists, who are particularly strong in Iraq and Syria. It was their Syrian leader, Vice President Akram Hourani, who saw the Communists about to come to power in Syria and, to prevent it, rushed Syria into union with Egypt. And it was the Baath Socialists in Iraq, emerging as the chief anti-Communist and pro-Nasser force in the country, who were the chief victims of Kassem's roundup of conspirators in Baghdad last week. In Cairo, Saeb Salam, who led Nasserite forces in the recent Lebanese...
Speaking at the Planning Board's public hearing on the proposed amendment, Whitlock pointed out that "the University has decided to build high wherever feasible," and asserted that if adopted in its present form the new ordinance might prevent this "intense use" of Harvard's property...
...Britain have repeatedly said they will never sign a treaty unless it spells out in detail a foolproof control and inspection system to prevent violations of a test ban. But on second look, there were no control provisions in the article they had approved in Geneva. Pressed, a U.S. spokesman admitted that the delegates had agreed to split the article in two, the control provisions being left in the second article. The Soviets, he explained, had "essentially adopted our language." "We will now get to the control system," he added...
...effort to prevent further difficulties between The Lampoon and the University, the publication has decided to abolish Fools' Weeks, it was learned last night...
...decision was reportedly made without any direct pressure from the Deans, and was designed not so much to avert official action as to prevent further complications with the University...