Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...negotiations to prevent the Bat Club from moving into the Advocate's present quarters continued, the magazine's officers broke grounds for its new building at 21 South Street...
...directed against the interests of the Western powers." Thus, without expending a single Russian soldier, Russia got credit among many Arabs for having made peace possible in the Middle East. (Among those not fooled was Egypt's top leadership, which saw that the Russians did not intervene to prevent the Anglo-French attack, but only sought to exploit...
...despite the absence of Red China and Japan, now number 25. No longer can the Western allies, balked in the Security Council, count upon prevailing in the General Assembly. By adding their votes to those of the nine Communist members, the new nations of Asia and Africa can henceforth prevent any resolution they dislike from obtaining the necessary two-thirds majority...
Before independence, student riots and demonstrations-as long as they were against the British-had the backing of a powerful voice. "In a country groaning under foreign rule," said Mahatma Gandhi, "it is impossible to prevent students from taking part in movements for national freedom." Then the foreign rule ended; but the riots, strikes and demonstrations kept right on. Says one professor: "The university today has become a nursery for anarchistic values...
...tradition of stability and freedom, full prosperity cannot be far away. We haven't noticed any special public or private favoring of trading with the Reds. If negotiations with Communist countries do prosper in a small way, it is mostly because the U.S. discriminatory tariffs against our wool prevent us from selling...