Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure that enough of the world's governments are interested in listening to reason (meaning the scientists). Politicians, he said, would not think of trying to wage modern warfare without the help of the scientists. These same scientists, he said, might be able to prevent war if they were only called in before the war began...
...What [is] your duty towards your neighbor?" The answer: "To do my best to prevent him from doing unto me what I should like to do unto him . . ." And "What is the Nature of Woman?" "Woman is the vessel of the Unholy Spirit, the source of all deformity . . . the enemy of the race...
...Journal-American persuaded itself that the story was "already the most sensational cause célèbre since the days of the Dreyfus case in France." The Communist Daily Worker announced darkly that it "was timed with the negotiations for a peace settlement in Germany-and timed to prevent such a peace settlement...
...story, and the depersonalized project, impressive as an example of courage and tenacity, turned out in detail to be just hard work. But some of the processes of the water workers-especially the fascine workers, who lace brushwood mattresses to be spread like skin on the ocean floor, to prevent the channels from deepening-make absorbing reading. And some of the glimpses of daily life in the occupation and after the liberation have a matter-of-fact, unexciting acceptance of hazard and horror that evokes war more vividly than more pretentious efforts...
...there any way to prevent suicide? The researchers made no recommendations, but they threw out some hints. Close family ties help; married people try suicide less often than the single, widowed or divorced; the divorced have the highest rate of all. Strong religious ties also help; there is comparatively little suicide among Catholics and Jews. Wars in general decrease suicide because they bring prosperity, make it easier for people to have "a sense of belonging...