Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower, Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell and Budget Director Percival F. Brundage. The Administration, they said in effect, will urge cuts if the economy fails to perk up as expected. The promise underlined an essential fact about the recession: while the U.S. Government cannot prevent downturns, it is inescapably committed to combat them, whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat. Because of this commitment, Vice President Nixon could say with considerable confidence of his own last week: "The American people can make their plans for 1958 with confidence rather than fear...
...Bourguiba held a business luncheon. Though the matters Bourguiba wanted to discuss were of vital interest to France, his guests were not Frenchmen. They were U.S. Ambassador Lewis Jones and British Ambassador Angus Malcolm. "This," commented a French diplomat in Tunisia, "is exactly what we have always tried to prevent; yet today we are grateful that it is occurring...
...under the illusion that Tunisia was still one of their colonies. "Bizerte," said Pineau flatly, "will remain a French base." The only "concessions" the French were prepared to make were ones that served their self-interest, i.e., a proposal to set up a Franco-Tunisian commission to prevent future border violations by the Algerian rebels...
...sounded at Japanese funerals). Cio-Cio-San no longer punches holes in the shoji (paper screen) walls of the house to watch for Pinkerton's return-for the good reason that a shoji slides open. Director Aoyama has Cio-Cio-San bind her legs before her suicide to prevent exposing them ("Even dying, a lady stays elegant"). As for Puccini's music, Director Aoyama still feels it is out of character-Puccini's death theme is a Japanese drinking song-but he admits that it has always packed them in in Japan...
...When he called (always at noontime), Jacqueline sent her mother to the movies. Three years ago he found himself "getting a bit frail" and tried to break off the liaison. Jacqueline objected; there were telephone calls, and a somewhat ruffled Sir Strati had to confess to his wife to prevent Jacqueline's turning up while a birthday party for his grandchildren was in progress...