Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is, happily, a vast difference between the possibility and the probability of war. Between the two lies a twilight of tension . . . that might last a generation and in the end mean peace or war . . . However, if this Army is to prevent war, it must be made part of a stable long-range military policy-a policy as prolonged as the period of tension ... If we are to hop, skip and jump every time a paper is rustled east of the Elbe, we shall place ourselves supinely and helplessly at [the Russians'] feet while they call the tune...
Though Chile's Communist Party had been outlawed since September, President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla was still worried about the mischief Communists might do in his country. Last week, to "prevent possible Communist crimes," he asked Congress to extend for another six months his emergency power to imprison individuals without trial. By a well-timed coincidence, Gonzalez' police has just arrested 21 Communist labor leaders in Concepcion, and seized documents purportedly proving that the 21 were cooking up ways to sabotage a steel mill, copper, coal and nitrate mines...
...beakers over a Bunsen burner, Rbbert turned out "a bushel of work" that never failed to rate the coveted Klock rubber stamp: "OK-AK." In six weeks, Robert completed a year's course. Says Klock: "He was so brilliant that no teacher would have been skillful enough to prevent him from getting an education." Robert got his introduction to the atomic theory ("A very exciting experience . . . beautiful, wonderful regularities...
When the Communists come to power--and only a miracle can prevent it--their attempts to consolidate their position will drive away those liberals who now follow them as the only alternative to Chiang. The U.S. must support the formation of liberals into a third force, virtually non-existent today, and aid it in taking ever the government. That is the sole possibility. Only then can America demonstrate, through the groups it supports, that it has something better to offer Asia than do the Communists...
...amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbidding one man to serve more than two elected Presidential terms. Congress passed this amendment and more than 20 states have ratified it. Opponents say the amendment is a retroactive slap at F.D.R. and would hamper the electorate. Backers say it would prevent a dictatorship in this country...