Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jews. "I ought to tell you," said Kurt Lieser, 47, the stranger, "that I spent the war in a concentration camp, and am Jewish." "What?" Zind exclaimed. "That means they forgot to gas you, too? The Nazis did not gas enough Jews." Two bar companions stepped in to prevent a fight, as Zind shouted: "And Israel-Israel should be removed like a carbuncle...
Still Scairt. Encouraged by this evidence that most of the trouble in colds is caused by the victims' permanently resident bacteria, which go on a rampage only after the virus has prepared the ground for them, Ritchie decided to try prevention with antibiotics, although their too-free use for colds is frowned upon. To minimize the risks of sensitizing the subjects to the drugs or helping resistant strains of microbes to emerge, he decided to use very small doses, in tablets to be sucked twice a day when the first sniffles appeared. Ritchie used the three closely related antibiotics...
...with U.S. Senator Bill Langer. And having got him, last week they tried to get rid of him: the state G.O.P. convention voted 348 to 177 on its fifth ballot to dump Wild Bill Langer, 71, in favor of Lieutenant Governor Clyde Duffy, 68. The convention vote will not prevent Langer from running in the party's June primary-and no one who knows stubborn Bill Langer thinks he will do anything else. In fact, even as the Republican delegates gathered, his Washington aides were holding a fancy campaign-fund-raising dinner...
Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin, who feels that the economy is suffering from indigestion or overexertion but that it is healthier now than it was three months ago, says: "Nothing can prevent our recovery going to higher levels of activity than we have heretofore except our mishandling of the patient by shooting in hypodermics, giving drugs at a point where the patient will continue to overexert himself and eventually put himself in a much worse position than he is at present...
...crocodile do to you if your mind is clear and your conscience is untroubled?"). When a drought parches the countryside, Raju inadvertently agrees to fast till the rains come. He caches food in the corners of the temple, but the round-the-clock ministrations of his disciples prevent him from eating it. At this point Raju realizes that he is not man enough to be a saint...