Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This inflation, he said, is the prime cause of the United Kingdom's relatively poor payments position and the poor payments position, in turn, tends to prevent the complete confidence necessary if sterling is to regain its position as prime mover in world finance...
Gordon described the political tensions which arise in India and Japan because of overcrowding and lack of food. "Even if India's leaders are able to keep their people alive, for the next twenty years, that very task will prevent them from realizing other political and economic goals...
...voters to pass tests in literacy and constitutional understanding. In the Deep South and in many other Southern rural areas, the decisions on passing or flunking rest in the hands of white registrars (in Alabama, three-man county boards) who use the power of office in devious ways to prevent qualified Negroes (and sometimes qualified poor whites) from registering. In Allendale County, S.C. in 1956, when Negroes tried to register they were told that the registration books were someplace else. In Monroe County, Ala. Negro applicants were repeatedly turned away because the registrars said they had "misplaced the application forms...
...wrong to believe in the Constitution of the United States?" asked the editorial in Tennessee's Clinton Courier-News last week. "Is it wrong to try to preserve peace in your community, to try to prevent individuals from being led astray by irresponsible rabble-rousers?" From Editor-Publisher Horace Wells these were not rhetorical questions. His weekly paper's remonstrances against the hooligan-led integration riots in Clinton last year (TIME, Sept. 10) have spurred threats against Wells's family, a dynamiting near his home, attempts to get a boycott going against the paper. But the paper has lost only...
...about as big as the head of a pin. Even at this early stage he knows what parts will develop into the head, wings or legs. By damaging the proper cells with a hair-thin beam of X rays, he can make the chick into a Cyclops. He can prevent wings from growing, or he can make the legs fuse together into a kind of tail...