Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whitlock listed several steps to prevent another disturbance that would stop short of a flat refusal to permit the game. He mentioned additional police protection, busing students to and from the game," and channeling part of the crowd into the subway through the MBTA yards on Mem Drive, so that they would not have to enter the Square to catch the train. Whitlock also suggested that a different date for the game might reduce the size of the crowd...
DeGuglielmo called the incident an act "of pure animal savagery" and cited the necessity to prevent "displays of mob violence" in requesting the University to "outlaw any permission of future football games between the rival Boston High School institutions in Harvard Stadium...
...Sheppard's second trial for killing his wife was bound to be different from his first one twelve years ago. For one thing, Cleveland Judge Francis Tally reserved only a few seats for reporters as he went out of his way to prevent any repetition of the "prejudicial publicity" that had moved the Supreme Court to reverse Sheppard's conviction. But even if courtroom decorum was improved, how could Prosecutor John T. Corrigan be prevented from persuading a new jury to reach the same result? The answer had to come from Boston Lawyer F. Lee Bailey...
Though meteorologists now know enough about tornadoes to predict with reasonable accuracy when they are likely to occur, they are powerless to prevent the deadly funnels from forming and cutting their swaths of destruction. Help may be on its way. A NASA scientist has conducted laboratory tests suggesting that tornadoes are electrically driven phenomena that can be dissipated simply by shorting them...
...could demonstrate the various ways of rescuing it. But most of the time the goofs are genuine. On her salmon show, she lovingly lifted,the fish out of the tub, carefully peeled back its skin with a paring knife, painstakingly wrapped it in a double roll of cheesecloth to prevent its coming apart during poaching and "so that he is happier while in the water." But when she came to prepare the simple white sauce for it, she was almost undone. "My sauce is going to be lumpy," she panicked momentarily. "Oh well, too bad. Maybe I can beat...