Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broadcast to the nation in February, Ike said: "We should not assume that, if Israel withdraws, Egypt will prevent Israeli shipping from using the Suez Canal or the Gulf of Aqaba. If, unhappily, Egypt does hereafter violate the armistice agreement or other international obligations, then this should be dealt with firmly by the society of nations...
When is sterilization socially and morally justified to prevent the transmission of feeblemindedness or other handicaps to offspring? No answer is universally agreed upon, because medical geneticists do not know with certainty what defects can be passed on from generation to generation. There is even doubt, in many cases, whether the children of mentally defective parents are themselves mentally defective because of the unfavorable background of their early life or because of defective genes. In the U.S. 28 states have laws permitting sterilization for the mentally ill or defective confined in institutions. In Scandinavia the situation is notably different. Denmark...
...stock-piling, they waged an intensive propaganda campaign to "ban the bomb." In 1950 they still insisted on the unconditional ban on nuclear weapons, but coupled it with a request for simultaneous international control. When in 1955, retaliatory power matched our own, Russia shifted in 1955 to efforts to prevent surprise attack. She advocated only ground inspection, however, and has not yet concurred in the American policy of open skies...
...member of the Class of 1946, I read with some concern a newspaper story under a Boston dateline, which reported that a committee consisting of eight Harvard Alumni, and calling themselves the Harvard Veritas Committee, has launched a campaign to prevent Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer from delivering the first of eight William James lectures on Philosophy...
Regardless of whether "the overriding consideration in all military planning must be to prevent war, rather than to prepare for it," Britain's military policy has raised problems which can't be easily solved. Although the government contends that its ground force will soon be more mobile and more powerful than before, it must be questioned whether Britain will have any intermediary fighting unit between colonial trouble-shooters and atomic mass retaliation. Already NATO officials have warned member countries that, with the possible exception of Britain and France, all must retain substantial ground forces for the defense of Europe...