Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress did pass, with only two dissenting votes, the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, affirming its readiness "to approve and support the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression...
...fertilizer imports come in mostly by sea, the rail system so far this year has car ried 62,000 tons of ammunition, weap ons and trucks into the north. By un loading the rail cars in the buffer zone, which the U.S. itself imposed on the area to prevent incidents with China, the Vietnamese have been able to stock pile materiel in the open until it could be trucked southward at night into the hands of the Viet Cong (see cover sto ry). "Now they will have a longer run to make," observed Air Force Brigadier General J. M. Philpott...
...when the decree takes effect, the term of curial office will in most cases be limited to five years instead of the traditional lifetime appointments. And to prevent the kind of friction between Pontiff and Curia that plagued Pope John, henceforth all cardinals heading curial offices and congregations (administrative divisions) must resign when a Pope dies, allowing the incoming Pontiff to choose a staff to his liking. Ending the present system, which allows some clerics to make the Curia their entire career, the Pope insists that all future congregation members must have some pastoral experience and should be drawn from...
...many invading viruses from multiplying in millions of cells and causing severe illness. It is effective against the whole catalogue of viruses, but its protection may last only two or three weeks. Nevertheless, researchers believed that if they could help the system produce interferon even before exposure, they could prevent many viral invasions from ever becoming established and causing illness...
...Griffin makes his point through the U.S. officer defending the Germans. "We talk now of 'war crime,' " says the defense counsel, "but the real crime is war itself and the war criminals are those who commence it or who, having the power to do so, fail to prevent it. We can no more make laws against it than we can make laws against love or fear or hate for it is as much a part of all ordinary men as they...