Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...listening to the furious talk of the workers in the bistros. It was my first political experience-an experience in despair. And the war lengthened the experience. While gathering evidence for the Nuremberg war trials, I came upon the horrifying proof of the extermination of 6 million Jews. To prevent war, to preserve freedom are continuing causes with me. They have shaped my life...
...Conservative Cabinet minister. "We will either win magnificently or lose disastrously. I see nothing in between." Her right-ward-ho spirit might have more appeal to voters weary of social and economic complexities than her liberal colleagues imagine. But to hedge the bet, they are already taking measures to prevent Mrs. Thatcher from stacking her shadow cabinet with fellow right-wingers...
...denounced the "utter contempt" the Turkish Cypriots had shown for the negotiations and requested an urgent session of the United Nations Security Council; it is expected to begin debate on the issue this week. As for partition, Makarios added, Greek Cypriots would "resist and if necessary sacrifice" themselves to prevent...
...House voted to prevent an increase in the cost of food stamps for the poor-a change in regulations urged by Ford that would have saved the Government $650 million a year. Then the Senate passed the same bill by a lopsided vote of 76 to 8. The cost of the controversial program has zoomed from about half a billion in 1970 to a projected $4 billion in 1975. But neither Democrats nor most Republicans were in a mood to raise the price of food for the underprivileged and unemployed in a recession year...
Some day, the worst thing about cancer may be the shot you get to prevent...