Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Grania is the chief culprit, the three of them bark and bite at one other all night in a manner not unlike the Tyrones in Long Day's Journey into Night. Lady Gregory's penchant for folk dialect and fairly elaborate imagery prevent the encounters from being quite so acerbic, and give the characters a sort of distance. There's not an awful lot you can do with only two or three characters on stage, and director John Pym settles for movement that is simple and unobtrusive...
...traced his wartime career as an auditor in a Berlin architect's office that designed plants and workers' barracks, firmly denied that he had anything to do with extermination camps. "Those who vilify me have long been aware of that," said Lübke. "It is to prevent them from succeeding in falsifying the truth that I have put my case before...
Late Orders. The U.S. cutter's skipper, Chief Boatswain's Mate P. W. Caviness, radioed Coast Guard headquarters for permission to intervene, was soon told to prevent the Cuban vessel from overrunning the lifeboat. The orders were too late. Before the cutter could move into position, the Julio made its third pass, and Caviness heard a shot fired from its deck. By the time the lifeboat came into sight again, both it and the sea around it were empty...
...back to Cuba," signaled the Cuban master. Speaking over a bullhorn and through an interpreter, he explained that the three mutineers were now his prisoners. Powerless to stop him, the Coast Guard had no choice but to let him go. Two days later, it even had to intervene to prevent the Julio from being hijacked by an armed yacht dispatched secretly to intercept it by a Cuban exile organization in Miami. The U.S., of course, got no thanks from Havana. Raging against "this new imperialistic Yankee aggression," the Castro government charged that "Yankee warships" had "violated the principles of freedom...
...that the resolve of a small group of men is the main factor that determines the success or failure of a revolution. The U.S. seeks to demoralize such people everywhere by defeating their counterparts in Vietnam, while the Chinese, fearful of the same result, do what they can to prevent such a defeat. It is an irony of history that Americans and Chinese, representing radically different ideologies, should labor under the same misconception...