Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stay off, shut up. get off our backs," reads one, "or your relatives in the Middle East will find themselves giving benefits to raise money to help you get out from the terrible weight of an enraged black community." On TV, Shanker said that his union was trying to prevent "a Nazi takeover of the schools...
...worst rioting Tokyo had seen since 1960, when the Zengakuren prevented President Eisenhower's state visit to Japan and toppled Premier Kishi. But even then, though much more unified and with far more public support than today, Zengakuren could not prevent the signing of the U.S.-Japanese Security Pact. The pact, replacing the earlier Security Treaty of 1951, was signed in 1960. It actually gives Japan a greater voice than before in any U.S. military activities on Japanese territory, and pledges both countries to take unspecified action if either one is attacked in territories under Japanese administration...
...missiles that might cost $40 billion. Humphrey doubts the wisdom of doing that; Nixon has expressed no firm position. Another national concern is the nuclear nonproliferation treaty-an attempt to stop other countries, including some erratic new ones in Asia and Africa, from building and brandishing atomic bombs. To prevent such possible nuclear blackmail, Humphrey urges quick U.S. ratification of the treaty. Nixon has called for a delay because of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. His critics point out that Nixon's strategy might delay ratification by other countries or kill the treaty entirely...
Such a statement is repugnant in its moral absolutism: It is anti-democratic in principle and seems to sanction any action to prevent a Harvard student from participating in ROTC...
...REPEAT, DO NOT LOOSEN YOUR TIE. DEVIATION CAN SPRING UP ANYWHERE. BE ON THE ALERT. REMEMBER, ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT NON-CONFORMITY! No Sir, I didn't mean conservative like that, like mod-men and ad-men: I mean political...