Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Under cover of mortar fire, Viet Cong penetrated the depot's perimeter, detonated a satchel charge against one ammunition pad, setting it afire. What makes Long Binh easy to attack-and difficult to damage seriously-is that each revetted pad is separated widely from all the others to prevent a chain reaction of explosions if one goes up. Red terrorists also set off a bomb in a utility shed only 200 yards from the Danang beach bungalow of Marine Commander Lieut. General Lewis W. Walt. The general was unharmed...
Even as moral condemnation of suicide is lessening, the scientific community is making greater efforts to prevent it. In Washington, the National Institute of Mental Health has just set up a national Center for the Studies of Suicide Prevention, which will launch research projects and help set up suicide-prevention staffs in hospitals and centers throughout the U.S. At present, there are nearly 60 such centers functioning or about to be established...
...further "the basic mainstream thinking" in the G.O.P.: he wants to help nominate a moderate or a liberal. He has not for gotten the thunderous catcalls from the Goldwater gallery at San Francisco's Cow Palace in 1964, and he is determined to prevent the conservatives from capturing the party again. "I stood up to them once, you know. I tell you, we can really stand up to them this time." "Them" this time means Reagan, and when he was asked last week about his differences with the California conservative, Rockefeller said with a grin: "Well...
...have skyrocketed, and the only mascara available runs down the ladies' faces. But signs of austerity are few, and business in downtown Salisbury is brisk. Unable to buy from Britain and other Commonwealth countries, Rhodesia has simply turned to friendly South Africa instead. Since Prime Minister Wilson cannot prevent South Africa from selling oil to Rhodesia, Smith gets all he needs to keep the economy going...
...goer hangs around the Olds-mobile 442, which squats near the main entrance. If the girl doesn't catch your eye, the color of the car will. "Lemon-lime luster" is very much like citric acid to the eye. It smarts. It glares. It offends. It's guaranteed to prevent scurvy on sight. The girl's nice, however. Her lines almost mitigate the lines she sings; like "442 -- the Groovy-go machine that will tickle your taste buds for action!" "And inside," she promised, "there are goodies galore." G-g-golly...