Word: preventing
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...almost all Americans. -The history of this nation suggests that when profound moral issues like this one settle in the national soul, nothing will deny a final, convulsive resolution. Certainly the Civil War was such an issue. No fancy legal footwork or geographic compromises or maneuvers by politicians could prevent the final act of war. Perhaps the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s were similar outpourings that would not be denied. If we have not passed the point of no return on the resignation or impeachment of Richard Nixon, we are very near...
Dean Rosovsky, in order to prevent further tuition rises, has asked department chairmen not to exceed 1973-4 expenditures in their budgets for the fiscal year...
...bricks and rocks. The white mob, which had apparently moved from the school vicinity to the subway station to wait for the blacks descended upon them. On the one side of the blacks stood the closed school doors from which the handles had long since been removed to prevent trespassers from entering the school in between periods. To their other side loomed a mass of white fists, tear-streamed faces and rapidly-moving lips mouthing the language of racial hatred...
...Freaks. Cometphobia took another form during Halley's reappearance in 1910. Fearing that mankind would be poisoned as the earth passed through noxious gases in the comet's tail, many people bought gas masks and "comet pills" to prevent asphyxiation; they also staged a round of end-of-the-world parties. But the gases were far too tenuous to do any damage, and the earth remained unscathed. One famous prediction, however, did come to pass. Mark Twain, who had been born during the comet's previous visitation in 1835, and wrote that he expected to die during...
...flyby, well within the orbit of Mercury, should make for a dazzling interaction between sun and comet. Perhaps most important of all, astronomers describe it as a "dirty" comet, one with an outer layer of dust that has probably never been stripped off by solar heating. That layer may prevent the comet from becoming as bright as originally predicted. But it also means that Kohoutek may be a "virgin," making its very first visit to the hot inner sanctum near the sun. That will give scientists an opportunity to study at close hand the structure of material that has never...