Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...programs-many of which have not even been started. No one group is all good or all bad. My suggestion to Americans appalled by the riots: become a little more appalled with the conditions, physical and emotional, that the ghetto dweller lives under and work consistently to erase and prevent the conditions that make for ghettos and the riots that grow out of them...
...Englanders, the world is divided into two parts: New England and elsewhere. Because the Red Sox are the lone baseball team to inhabit this hallowed ground, it has been assumed by local fans that they must be perfect, and that only the cruel workings of fate could prevent them from winning the pennant. Fate has been awfully cruel for the last 20 years...
...Hong Kong was assailed last week by Peking's promises of more trouble to come: "Let the British imperialists tremble before the Chinese people." The British made more raids on leftist unions and arrested more than 600 people in an effort to prevent a recurrence of the Maoist rioting that has shaken the crown colony off and on for more than two months. Police, aided by British troops, found caches of arms, Molotov cocktails and bottles of acid...
...reminder that the Government's stock of silver-and therefore its ability to control the price-was coming to an end. Anticipating the inevitable, dealers began bidding up silver prices. And the Treasury, with enough new "sandwich" coins (made of layers of copper and nickel) around to prevent shortages should speculators be tempted to melt old-style 90% silver coins, decided to move sooner rather than later...
...world of string chamber music, it takes works of great individuality to prevent the subtleties and arcanities of the medium from melting into homogeneity. The String Trio Op. 45 of Arnold Schoenberg is much like the Sessions in outward appearance: three sections of alternating mood written in a deceptively similar atonal style...