Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sort usually provided by soap operators. Characters inquire of one another: "What manhole did you crawl out of?" and express such opinions as "This guy'll louse us up." Its first episode revolves about the widow's search for a fighter of sufficient prowess to prevent her establishment's going broke...
...appreciate TIME exceedingly and read it from cover to cover and the only thing that used to prevent me to appreciate it 100% was to read war news after defeats being converted into victories or vice versa, because of the delay in receiving the magazine...
...most sensational international news of his speech was his assertion that the U.S. would not permit the Atlantic islands to fall into Nazi hands, but Germans were more likely to be impressed if the U.S. demonstrated, rather than said, that it would use force to prevent...
...conquest was but a step. . . . Unless the advance of Hitlerism is forcibly checked now, the Western Hemisphere will be within range of Nazi weapons of destruction." No man could accept the President's picture of the world after a Nazi triumph and not want to act effectively to prevent that triumph (and last week it seemed that most of the U.S. accepted it, wholly or in part). The President said...
...buttresses his argument with numerous incidents in our history as well as statements by our political leaders. For example, he returns to Jefferson, favorite prototype of contemporary isolationists, to show that even he was willing "to marry our selves to the British fleet and nation" in order to prevent Napoleon from occupying Louisiana...