Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your analysis of the China Nationalist position is a masterpiece. When it is fully realized that the East-West situation in Europe is merely the feint, it may be too late to prevent China from being our "coup de grace" in this world game of chess...
...fighting commenced formally, like a duel. The Israeli Foreign Office handed a warning to the U.N. Commission. A few hours later the Israeli army announced it was taking "steps to prevent the Egyptians from continuing aggressive action." The evening of the same day Jewish forces attacked Gaza from the sea; the following day they attacked it from the air, bombed Egyptian outposts in the southern Negeb desert...
...electoral college had originally been conceived as a brake on democracy: to prevent the average citizen, whose wisdom many a founding father questioned, from directly electing a President. Practice and precedent had long since deprived the electors of the actual right to name a President of their own choice; they now simply echoed the decisions of the political conventions and the people. But they echoed those decisions imperfectly-as many a voter had long been aware...
...only he can supply the largest proportion of needed homes. Federal aid should provide for the income groups which he cannot help, partly because of inflated building costs. There must be Federal coordination from the top to aid and advise local groups, to plan better cities, and to prevent destruction of present facilities even for the purpose of improving them. No Utopia is in sight, but the 81st Congress, when it assembles on January 3, cannot long delay a start toward improving a situation in which one third of the nation lacks adequate shelter...
...least: the ferret is a grandfather, and must be presumed to have had some experience." The firm filled out the union card, returned it, and Freddie was solemnly accepted by the union as a member. Freddie's job has also been insured against any neuropsychological complications: to prevent frustration, he is given a rabbit at the end of each day's work...