Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foster argued that the Pentagon needed research into politics, economics, anthropology and a plethora of other subjects apparently unconnected with war in order to spot future crises-and perhaps prevent them from degenerating into shooting. "Thinking about national security today," Foster insisted, "must include some explicit analysis of many factors that 50 years ago probably would have been neglected." Fulbright was unmollified, echoing his disquiet over the Pentagon's influence on U.S. foreign policy that expanded under former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. "What you are really saying," Fulbright retorted, "is that the civilian heads of the Department of Defense...
Unfortunately, the public's answers can be as misleading as the questions. Ashamed to admit racial or religious prejudice, people who answer polls sometimes resort to artful lying. Though 80% tell interviewers that they will vote, only 65% do so. To prevent bias, interviewers ask trip-up questions ("When did you vote last?" "Where are you registered?"), and toss out roughly one-fifth of the respondents on the ground that they are unlikely to vote...
...wispy Frenchwoman who spirited all the works of her old friends Sinyavsky and Daniel to the Polish exiles running Kultura magazine in Paris. As for Solzhenitsyn, rumored to be ailing from cancer himself, he has demanded that everyone cancel foreign publication of his book-not so much to prevent Westerners from reading it, probably, as to deprive the Soviet censors of one more excuse for banning it at home...
...equally clear that Columbia's academic rebels are so concerned with the failures of an intransigent system that they themselves are intransigently determined to prevent the university's restoration at any cost. "The events of Tuesday night," said Columbia Provost David Truman, "brought home to a lot of faculty and students just what we're up against with the hard core of the demonstrators...
...proletariat -- if there is such a thing as the proletariat as they think of it. I have to quality here, too, because one of the most frustrating and significant things in American life is that even in the worst parts of this country, there is just enough to prevent starvaiton, just enough to provide for malnutrition rather than starvation...