Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DEMONSTRATORS who prevented the showing of Birth of a Nation Saturday night at Adams House erred seriously. By using physical intimidation to stop the presentation, they ironically aligned themselves briefly with other, repressive forces that use strong-arm tactics to prevent free expression. This arrogant censorship contradicts basic principles espoused by the demonstrators, and has no place at Harvard or in any free community...
This resurgence of nationalist sentiment comes at a bad time for England. While efforts to preserve Scottish and Welsh culture come only just in time to prevent their extinction, it is a vain hope that smaller units of economic and social organization will be able to keep their heads above water any better than large ones in the approaching economic deluge. Unless the Scots are willing to become a sheikdom on the Clyde, a few decades of oil-boom cannot be a substitute for industrial development. Their growing isolationism is reflected in the Labour party's desire...
...Hades who takes her to his kingdom of the dead and makes her his wife and queen of the underworld. Demeter, upon learning of her daughter's fate, goes into a period of mourning so intense that it causes all green things to turn brown and die. Finally, to prevent the earth from dying, Zeus intervenes and orders Hades to restore Persephone to her mother. Hades does so, but only after making sure Persephone has eaten in the underworld, thus assuring that she return there for at least some portion of each year. During spring and summer mother and daughter...
...Internal Revenue Service raises awkward questions. Because the Senate will recess in mid-October for the upcoming elections, Chairman Howard W. Cannon does not expect the committee to vote on Rockefeller until November. The House Judiciary Committee will probably conduct its hearings after the elections, which will prevent Rocky from campaigning for fellow Republicans. Then, presumably before year's end, both the House and the Senate will vote on the confirmation of Nelson Rockefeller as the 41st Vice President...
White claims in his federal suit that this passage shows that Inwagen "maliciously intended to prevent Plaintiff from exercising his right to express his free speech," and that he never used obsene or profane terms in his letters...