Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...area, countless volunteers?many of them college students ?took over the job of directing traffic. (In Manhattan, the most prominent surrogate cops were a brown-robed Franciscan friar and an elderly boulevardier in a dinner jacket.) Acting on their own, men and youths patrolled neighborhood stores to prevent looting...
Signouts are, furthermore, an invasion of privacy. The hordes who gather around the sign-out book as if it were the Daily News society section are notorious in every dormitory. The recent innovation of supplying boxes and file-cards--presumably to prevent this--just recounts your life-history at a glance...
...their best to keep her out of danger, but she always managed to find it. While covering the rebels in Algeria, she learned to subsist on a diet of half a dozen dates a day, to sleep on a rock, to urinate only once a day to prevent dehydration. She could do 50 pushups. "In fatigues and helmet," said an admiring Marine Corps commander in Viet Nam, "you couldn't tell her from one of the troops, and she could keej up front with the best of them...
...general understanding" will be reached, he said, because the French are "becoming increasingly conciliatory" to U.S. proposals for expanding international currency reserves. These reserves -- composed primarly of dollars, pounds and gold -- are used by central banks such as the Federal Reserve System to prevent temporary payments deficits from choking off world trade...
Several states and cities yesterday called for immediate action to prevent the network from falling again. In New York City, where some sections were without electricity until 7 a.m., Mayor Robert F. Wagner said that the city's power supply must be set up to make any break "of short duration...