Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parties -notably Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and his opposite number in the House, South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers-have be gun to protest that privileged targets hamper the war effort. Richard Nixon called for stepped-up bombing of the North to prevent the U.S. from becoming "bogged down" in the ground war. G.O.P. House Leader Gerald Ford and Republican Conference Chairman Melvin Laird warned that Viet Nam would be a major issue in next year's congressional elections-as it should...
...formal change in the Rome Treaty to prevent majority voting on the council, thus retaining control of veto power. France will probably have to settle instead for an informal gentleman's agreement that no country will be overruled on a matter of vital national interest...
...they may have to find ways to isolate the hurricanes from their principal source of energy, the sea. One suggestion advanced at the Miami meeting: to cover large areas of the sea in the vicinity of a hurricane with a thin chemical layer-perhaps of fatty alcohols-that would prevent evaporation and keep energy from rising into the storm...
...Cuban missile crisis, Khrushchev saw Kennedy move-and that brink-of-war episode sobered both men. Kennedy felt that he had "peered into the abyss and knew the potentiality of chaos," says Schlesinger, and from then on his overriding aim was to minimize "the ethos of violence" and "to prevent unreason from rending the skin of civility." Shortly before Dallas, he read aloud a passage from King John...
Because local police and courts have abdicated their responsibilities, President Johnson and Congress must act to prevent future racial murders and to increase the chances of punishing lawbreakers...