Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happening. It reported at first that its country had been invaded by a large organized force from the north. Some of the Athens communiqués sounded like war, some merely like more guerrilla fighting in Epirus. Whatever was going on, the U.S. Government made up its mind to prevent 1) a Communist overthrow of the Greek Government, or 2) establishment of a separate Communist stooge-state...
Certainly not John Lewis, was the inference, and there was evidence to support it. First, he had forced the operators to knock the old no-strike clause out of the coal contract. That would prevent any damage suits for breach of contract under the Taft-Hartley Act. Then, to make sure that mine operators would not go running to the NLRB for help, he had wangled a provision that disputes would be settled in union-management conference...
...becomes increasingly evident that the Five-Year Plan must either be seriously curtailed in order to prevent more unfavorable trade balances or that other means must be resorted to in order to continue the plan without adversely affecting the economy of the country...
...week's end, the Denver Post telephoned David Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and explained that someone had suggested that the phenomenon might be related to "transmutation of atomic energy." Lilienthal snapped: "I can't prevent anyone from saying foolish things...
...wears thin. It is the rabbit that gives words to the principle which ultimately wins them all and becomes a rumor in the forest: renunciation of self, even of personal freedom and of life if necessary, to help establish "that law of love which should govern all the world, prevent it from shriveling like an old furze-bush...