Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major party leaders tempered their tone. Socialist Kurt Schumacher expressed "appreciation that the Allies, especially the Anglo-Saxons, have made serious efforts to help Germany." Socialists, Christian Democrats and Free Democrats agreed that Allied troops and security agencies should stay to prevent Russian aggression, but asked that Allied controls over German affairs be abandoned...
...this grating contradiction-and evident flashes of German insolence-might prove to be less important than the fact that the Communists had not been able to prevent the beginnings, however tenuous, of democracy in Germany. "I hope you'll pardon us for a lot of this talk," one German politician recently told an American official, "but in political campaigns such talk is quite necessary, nicht...
When Schwertz took over in 1942, Beauregard was a dirty, dilapidated place. His predecessor had kept the toilets locked to prevent pupils from writing on the walls. Enrollments had dropped to 384, and many parents had sent their children to the parochial school across the street...
...modern concept of antibodies. The body's own drugs, he thought, were concentrated in the blood; therefore, a full supply of blood to the whole system was necessary to health. Dr. Still preached that manipulation of the spine, muscles and joints, to preserve a normal blood flow, could prevent or cure practically any ailment...
...miners struck June 27. Australia's Laborite Prime Minister Joseph B. Chifley, veteran of many a railway walkout, was jolted out of Australia's usual tolerance of communism. For the first time, Chifley denounced the Communists, and his government hurriedly drafted an emergency bill that would prevent unions from using their funds to support strikes called during arbitration proceedings. Most of Australian labor supported the bill. It passed without dissent. Cried Labor M.P. Leslie Haylen: "Reds act here as in Berlin. They choose the depth of a hard winter to try and suborn a great community by privation...