Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fighting men are mad because of the false optimism of our news. . . . When suffering intensely they will hear a bland radio announcement saying 'The enemy is routed. Our losses are negligible. There is little if any enemy resistance. . . .' Greater frankness in war news presentation will prevent cynicism and lack of confidence later...
...road the steel mesh, laid on the roadbed, is filled with sand and pebbles and coated with road oil. It costs more than a concrete surface, but its builders, Irving Subway Grating Co., claim that it can be laid much faster, is easier to maintain, may prevent road washouts. Biggest expected advantage: better protection against skidding. This has already been proved on at least 200 U.S. bridges with steel decks: a Seattle bridge that used to be very dangerous in wet weather has not had an accident in the ten years since a steel surface was installed...
...decisive European strategy now depends upon the Russians, and their willingness or ability to prevent the main body of the Wehrmacht from turning to the south and west. To insure this strategy, the Allies moved last week...
...mood of Congress and the new mood of Washington. But this was only the first week of the session. On the eve of election year, with politics weighing more day by day, in a House almost equally divided between Democrats and Republicans, anything can happen. To prevent anything disastrous happening to the Democrats is one job of Texas' Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, 42d Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives...
...spasm, but to a lesser degree. In the stretched muscles they found both paralysis and spasm. They conclude: 1) the muscle weakness results from impairment or destruction of certain nerve cells in the spinal cord; 2) spasm, which is only temporary, results from lack of the nerve impulses that prevent involuntary contraction; 3) the paralysis, which may be permanent, results when contraction impulses fail to get through...