Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left Capitol Hill than the comments began to click off the news tickers. Congress would examine the proposals "carefully and thoroughly," promised Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, scheduling hearings before the Foreign Relations Committee. Senate Minority Leader William Knowland remarked that he would "support a policy that would prevent Soviet aggression," but "the details will, of course, have to be worked out by the legislative arm." South Carolina's Olin Johnston was flatly against the whole plan. "I am supporting the President," drawled Georgia's Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Georgia's Richard...
...Democratic and Republican leaders. After a cool start, Knowland and Lyndon Johnson have become warm friends. When Lyndon was convalescing from his heart attack, Bill twice weekly wrote long, gossipy letters with news of the Senate and its members. He also assured Johnson that he would work to prevent anyone from taking political advantage of Lyndon's absence...
...marbled corridors of the Capitol, a growing, growling inauguration-day crowd waited too, under the steely eyes of state troopers and city police spotted through the building to prevent riot. Harried election supervisors filled out certificates of election for both candidates, and waited. And in their seventh-floor chambers of the courthouse, four justices of the Supreme Court mulled over the problem thrown to them three days before the inauguration for an eleventh-hour decision...
...warm, the kind of weather when skiers down below wish for snow. Four days later the skiers had their snow. Up above, the Alpine peaks were shrouded with ominous evidence of storm and fury. Torn between heartache and indignation, the people of Chamonix gazed aloft, muttered about laws to prevent off-season climbing, and gazed hopefully at the local guides, who refused to budge. "Their action was voluntary," said the guides. "Even to save two men, you can't risk the lives of ten or 15 rescuers with wives and children...
...first two shibboleths are doctrinaire battle cries, but the third is the aim of the economist whose new focus for socialism is to prevent waste in human and material resources and strengthen Britain's economic health. This almost bureaucratic concern for efficiency has occasionally severed Gaitskell from his party's traditional concern for expanding social services. His long battle with Bevan, for example, began when, as Chancellor, Gaitskell instituted small charges for spectacles and false teeth in Britain's free health services. Since then, some of his Socialist opponents have professed that they see little difference between the economic policies...