Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anarchy. During the previous three weeks, egged on by racists around him, he had stirred Little Rock into emotional turmoil. Ambitious for a third term, eager to win political support from Arkansas segregationists, he had thwarted a federal court integration order by calling out his National Guard to "prevent violence" in a city where none existed. What the National Guard was really being used for was to bar the nine Negro children from Central High. Making each new step more drastic than his last, Faubus made inflammatory statement after inflammatory statement. He called off the National Guard in response...
...coast, and came down low over the massed invasion fleet. Vice Admiral Charles R. Brown radioed his carrier force in the clear: "A possibly hostile aircraft is approaching your area. If it menaces your formation, use sidewinders [air-to-air missiles carried beneath a plane's wings] to prevent photography." But before hastily launched U.S. Navy delta wing Sky rays could catch it, the twin jet scooted home to Communist territory...
These three different instructors which the student meets each week prevent one particular accent or idiosyncrasy from becoming ingrained in the student's own formulation of the language. After the first six weeks of the course, moreover, the groups are divided into "fast" and "not-so-fast" and the instructors are shuffled, providing another change in accent...
Added to the number of political opportunists, there is a sizable group of people who will fight to prevent integration. Sincere in their beliefs, they are generally ignorant, poor, and not unacquainted with violence. Unknowing victims of political exploitation, these persons create demagogues and support them...
House of Numbers (MGM) offers to whom it may concern what is probably the most ingenious improvement in the fine art of can-opening since the cake with the file inside. Like most great inventions, this one is based upon a simple idea: Since prisons are designed to prevent exit, might it not be much simpler to effect entry? In short: the easiest way to break out is to break...