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Word: preventing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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That left 1:56 remaining, enough time for Dartmouth to drive 94 yards in 1:12 for the game's final score, and cement Harvard Coach Joe Restic's belief in the futility of the prevent defense...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Gridders Chain-Saw Woodsmen, 24-19 | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...creatures that flit through this often terrifying and macabre book. The Ellen Jamesians are women who have cut out their tongues in order to remember the case of Ellen James. Ellen James was an 11-year-old girl who was raped; her rapists then cut out her tongue to prevent her from describing them. What they of course forgot was that Ellen James could write. She wrote descriptions of her assailants, and they were caught. Later she comes to live with Garp, and develops into something of a real writer. But she doesn't care much about the Ellen Jamesians...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Laughter, Loneliness and Sex | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Public reaction to law enforcement intelligence operations has harmed the Federal Bureau of Investigation's ability to prevent crime, Clarence M. Kelly, former director of the FBI, told 50 students at Boston University Law School yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kelly Speaks on Crime | 10/19/1978 | See Source »

...goal of the ordinance is "to prevent massage parlors from becoming places for quick sex," Lawrence W. Frisoli. chair man of the Committee on Ordinances, parlors are prosecuted under prostitution lwas. The laws, however, do not provide police with easy access to massage parlors, Higley said...

Author: By Joshual I. Goldhaber, | Title: City Committee on Ordinances Considers Pinball, Massages | 10/17/1978 | See Source »

...ordinance would also prevent the parlor from being open between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. prime time in the massage business...

Author: By Joshual I. Goldhaber, | Title: City Committee on Ordinances Considers Pinball, Massages | 10/17/1978 | See Source »

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