Word: preventing
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...Johnson impeachment serves stark warning of the danger to a President who mixes unpopularity with a combative affront to Congress. By the same token, however, the Johnson trial is also a reminder that an emotional political railroading is likely to offend enough Senators to prevent conviction. Unfortunately, the Johnson case's historical interest is not matched by much useful guidance on legal issues. So politically charged were the proceedings that authorities generally regard it as an abuse of the impeachment power...
Harvard's only point of the game was a fluke shot by Alex Danso, with an assist by the Brown goalkeeper. Danso drove in toward the net, where the goalie was readying for a save. But when the goalie attempted to jump on Danso's kick to prevent its reaching the net, he fell onto his back and the shot spun off him into the net, sparing Harvard yet another shutout...
...seemingly paradoxical superpower activity, mingling risky military gestures with discreet peacemaking efforts, was part of a delicate and sophisticated policy dance. Both the White House and the Kremlin were trying to influence Middle East events to avoid a wider war on the one hand, and on the other to prevent either of the combatants from being overpowered, which would only perpetuate the regional enmity and prevent any stable solution...
When I came to Harvard this fall, I believed that Harvard stood for intellectual and academic freedom. I am no longer certain. It is extremely upsetting to me that a small number of narrow-visioned students would prevent William Shockley from debating Roy Innis on October 26. It is even more upsetting to me that the Harvard Law School Forum would assist these students in denying a Nobel Laureate his First Amendment rights. It is a rude awakening to find such hypocrisy in an academic community...
...real purpose of the Reserve Corps is, as I see it, the promotion of the warfare state and should therefore be abolished. The argument advanced by those who favor the restoration of the ROTC on the grounds that it is undemocratic to prevent those who want ROTC training from getting it is completely invalid for this reason: Public funds in large amounts are used in order to sustain the ROTC, which not only renders no public service, but does the exact opposite. This argument, it seems to me, is just as invalid as would be the argument that public funds...