Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Directors tried hard to keep Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, and indeed the whole segregation issue, out of the election. They even went to Faubus and begged him not to interfere. But Orval Faubus, hoping for a vote he might claim as popular approval for his wild attempt to prevent integration at Little Rock's Central High School, gave no promises. In fact, the word soon went out that his aides were on the telephone, whipping up support for the seven candidates supported by the segregationist Capitol Citizens' Council (included were the president and secretary of the riot...
...prevent these "prominent members of the team" from playing against Yale this afternoon would subject the three players to the indelible shame of damning national publicity and would amount to punishment before the establishment of guilt, a guilt that currently appears dubious...
...International Geophysical Year, each nation supporting the satellite project agreed in effect to the legal validity of the project and did not quibble about violations of its air space. If, however, reconnaissance or military satellites are built, what would be the legal rights a country has to prevent their passing over its territory...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14--The United States and Britain brushed aside strong French protests today and ordered a token shipment of small arms sent to Tunisia in an effort to prevent the French colony from turning to Soviet arms suppliers...
...reactions, that it is hard to evaluate a treatment for so short-lived a disease as Asian flu. By coincidence, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a strong warning the same day against any false and misleading claims by drug manufacturers "that products of limited benefit can effectively prevent or cure Asian flu ... The public should be on guard...