Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closing the park at night and opening only one entrance in the day away from heavily traveled Mt. Auburn. With a few benches and a short walkway, the land could provide peaceful refuge for those stalking some of the city's scarce open space. And nothing would prevent members of the Fly from continuing their leisurely matches of croquet...
...Powder Keg, an anti-busing group, "Remember, a mother's power is the greatest power on earth!" did not sound very stirring on the first day they marched, when the crowd of women met police several lines deep with riot helmets and nightsticks in their hands, waiting to prevent them from parading down past Bunker Hill Monument in front of the high school. These police are funded by the Commonwealth, ironically a source of authority Charlestown patriots fought and died for two hundred years ago. And the power of these police holds sway over Charlestown, creating an artificial calm around...
...live in this country believe in is American religion; whether its roots go back to Sinai or to Jerusalem year one, or any other any other year, or to any time or place on earth. I believe that the intent of the first amendment to our constitution was to prevent any one religion from attaining the power to dominate any other religion; it was meant to allow for the free development of religious pluralism in America. Hence I affirm that being Jewish in America is as American as being Christian. What is un-American is exclusivism, discrimination, and lack...
Lucy M. Manzi, Lamont Librarian, said yesterday that the measure is designed to "keep out outsiders" and prevent "problems" similar to the attempted rape of a Radcliffe student which took place in the building last spring...
Donleavy's total wisdom on the subject "How to Prevent People from Detesting You" comes down to two words: "Don't try." For with all one's dreadful odors (physical and moral), one certainly is detestable. What, then, is left? Your duty, your honor rest upon keeping even more detestable people from thriving, especially at your expense. Dealt with most specifically, these scoundrels number accountants who steal your money, doctors who remove your healthier organs, the snobs above you who black ball you from their clubs, the "bootless and unhorsed" below you whom you would surely blackball...