Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth quarter of 1957, the first quarter of the dip. The trend in most cases was downward, but like the economy itself, the reports added up to a mixture of good and bad. Even in cases where fourth-quarter earnings fell, the fall was often not great enough to prevent the company from totting up record earnings for the year...
There has been only one free poll on the popularity of the Red Chinese government, and that was one the Communists could not prevent. It was among 20,000 Chinese soldiers captured by the U.N. forces in Korea. Offered the chance to be returned to Red China, 14,000 refused, renounced home and families to migrate to Formosa. Last week the bells of Formosa pealed to celebrate the fourth anniversary of Freedom Day when the 14,000 arrived in Formosa. Among them some 20 known Red agents were discovered, clapped into a concentration camp. All the rest have now been...
...crossing the sand dunes heaped wall-high at several points. Anderson recognized Fort Sumter, then unoccupied, as stronger than Moultrie. He urged that it be garrisoned-in a message to the War Department that is as meaningful to 1958 as to 1860: "Nothing will be better calculated to prevent bloodshed than our being found in such an attitude that it would be madness and folly to attack...
...Cromwell, whom Novelist Goudge feels she knows intimately, including his conversation. "My lord, we must act at once!" cries "Old Noll" Cromwell to his C. in C., the Earl of Essex. "Let us do nothing hastily, Colonel Cromwell," answers the slower-moving peer, then adds: "Decisive victory now would prevent incalculable suffering." Probably, muses one character, they are saying the same thing in the enemy camp-and sure enough King Charles had told his aide, Lord Leyland: "Francis, if I can win an overwhelming victory . . . my people will be spared the misery of a long...
Svensk; Rank). On the subject of temptation, Martin Luther once said: "You can't prevent the birds flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair." With this for his text, Swedish Director Ingmar (Torment) Bergman*has preached in this picture a sermon on sensuality that the pastor of Wittenberg would scarcely have said amen to. But the Swedes, whose notions about sex have changed since Luther's time, were tickled pink with the picture. So were a lot of European critics...