Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Members of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) threatened to sue the university if classes are disrupted. In a telegram sent to Chirst-Janer, they claim that if demonstrators are permitted to prevent them from attending classes, the university will have violated the contract made with students by accepting their tuition...
...gates to the Yard will be locked except the one on Quincy Street near the Freshman Union and the Yard will be closed until further notice. "We are aware that many here don't support those in University Hall but it seems best in order to prevent violence to close the Yard," Ford said...
...really say how long it will take. We ought to take all the time we need to look at the whole structure of the Coop, but there is not reason for us to drag our feet. In fact, if we had wanted to change by-laws to prevent another situation like last fall, we could have pushed that through right away...
...Mujibur Rahman. The impatient "Mujib" threatened to carry to the National Assembly his demands for purbodesh, a kind of associate statehood, for East Pakistan's Bengalis, which would seriously weaken the central government in Rawalpindi. If Mujib's East Pakistanis had their way, Ayub feared, what would prevent similar demands in West Pakistan that the province be carved up into four separate states? Aware for the first time that he might lose control of his once rubber-stamp National Assembly, Ayub wrote a letter to Yahya inviting the army to move...
...maladroitness, to increase Moscow's influence at the cost of Peking. Soviet counsel seems now to prevail in North Viet Nam, though Ho Chi Minh apparently retains a high degree of independence by playing off one side against the other. In Laos, the Russians have managed to prevent the Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas from falling under Chinese influence. In North Korea, the Soviets capitalized on Peking's insults of the regime of Premier Kim II Sung to nudge the country closer to Moscow's position...