Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When we have won the war we shall still have to win the peace. We are agreed, all of us, that America will participate with other sovereign nations in a cooperative effort to prevent future wars. Let us face up boldly to the magnitude of that task. ... It cannot be the work of any one man or of a little group of rulers. . . . The structure of peace must be the work of many men . . . the ablest men and women America can produce...
...velocity antitank guns, blasting from the hedgerows or forest edges. Heavier attacks were driven off by British artillery, which dumped shells like loads of coal onto the advancing Panzer formations. The Nazis could not crack the British positions. The enemy might delay Caen's fall; he could not prevent...
...Social Democrats (85 out of 200 Diet seats) would revolt. But the effective time had passed. Germans were arriving every day, parading the streets of Helsinki and singing mechanically. The citizens glared. Ribbentrop flew home to tell his master that Finland would tie up some 20 Russian divisions, prevent a Russian breakthrough to Norway and possible juncture with the Western Allies. Down by the harbor a stolid crowd watched flustered Germans dredge for 15 tanks, sent to the bottom the day before when a small and poorly loaded German freighter turned over near the quay...
...associates, with his arbitrary behavior in London. But his posturings and demands had not improved the U.S. position. Said the shrewd London Economist: ". . . allowing for the worst the President can suspect, the present American attitude is calculated to bring about exactly those dangers which it is designed to prevent...
...prevent fatal blood clots from stopping up heart and lung arteries after operations, Boston's Dr. Arthur Wilburn Allen watches the big leg veins where the clots form and, when necessary, opens the veins, draws the clots out by suction before they can move on and do any harm, then ties off the veins. He uses this method on hundreds of cases a year, has greatly reduced deaths from embolism...