Word: prevented
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...youth concerning the draft is growing. This is partly because more students are wondering if the SSS is something more than an insignificant aberration from the values of our society. More and more are concluding that the SSS does represent the prevailing outlook, and that the only way to prevent the disastrous fulfillment of the self-fulfilling prophecy is to resist the organization which most inflexibly enforces that outlook...
...treaty designed to prevent the use of outer space for military attack was signed with great ceremony early last year by the United States and the Soviet Union. The recent announcements of the Russian orbital bomb and the American space bus indicate, sadly, that this agreement is already crumbling...
...House dining halls during three consecutive days in mid-December. Each student, as he entered the lobby, was asked if he was a senior. If he admitted that he was, he was requested to fill out the poll--his name was checked off a master list in order to prevent repeats. No more than ten students in all of the Houses refused to fill out the questionnaire. Michael Useem 2G computed the poll; it was written and directed by James E. Shapiro...
...Cultural Affairs Minister André Malraux and demanded: "If Khrushchev trusted me, why can't you?"-and gained TV's first penetration of the Louvre. If guile or gall does not work, there is always main strength. Once when a Tokyo airport functionary tried to prevent her from covering an arrival scene, she simply let the poor fellow have it on the back of the neck with a karate chop...
President Johnson's moves to correct the U.S.'s balance of payments deficit were painful to some, controversial to many, and likely to damage the nation's own interests if left in effect too long. Yet the objective was beyond cavil: to prevent recent attacks on the dollar and the speculative rush for gold from growing into an international financial crisis that could undermine prosperity around the world...