Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrats who so rarely have been invited into such sacred premises were offered scrambled or poached eggs, sausage or bacon or both, English muffins or toast. The elegant White House waiters passed those 800 Flamenco No. 1 cigars. All of that didn't prevent Albert and O'Neill from giving blunt assessments about the prospects for Nixon's legislative proposals, but they went back to Congress having been part of a dialogue, not schoolchildren summoned for another flipchart show by Haldeman and Ehrlichman...
...officials initially refused to present evidence to a federal grand jury, contending that chances of a successful prosecution were too slim. Yet a similar fear of losing in court did not prevent Mitchell's Justice Department from moving unsuccessfully against such ideological foes as Daniel Ellsberg and the would-be Kissinger kidnapers...
Their report, issued in late January 1973, noted that several problems remained unresolved--and even added a new issue to opponents' arguments, that of public safety. But at the same time, it recommended "that Harvard take no active steps to attempt to prevent construction...such as refusing to sell to Con Ed the 240 acres of the Black Rock that will be flooded by the storage reservoir or by presenting this land to the Palisades Interstate State Park before Con Ed can obtain ownership...
SEVERAL YEARS ago John T. Dunlop, then dean of the Faculty, pressured the College to accept transfer students in order to fill spaces left by the leave-takers. Now Dean Whitlock says the crunch may prevent Harvard and Radcliffe from accepting transfers next year. All told, 38 students will transfer into both Colleges...
...monastic fate of Claverly, the Union dorms and the Yard halls near Cambridge streets (i.e. Wigglesworth) also seems all but sealed. Security considerations prevent Radcliffe freshmen from living in these dorms, Young maintains. He explained that buildings located away from the streets are historically more secure and less susceptible to Cantabridgian Peeping Toms, who apparently concern Harvard as much as crime...