Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...predicted World War II: "I saw it all coming and cried aloud to my own fellow countrymen and to the world. . . . There never was a war in history easier to prevent by timely action. . . . But no one would listen...
Adoption, however, was all but impossible. Like British village matrons, British charitable institutions were turning up suddenly race-conscious noses at illegitimate mulatto babies. Even when the father and mother were married, U.S. custom sometimes intervened to prevent reunion. The League of Colored Peoples asked one Southern Negro father if he wanted to take his white wife to America. "Brother," he replied, "if I did, I would have to leave her in New York when I went home...
...Eisen was still no farther than the borsch summer-resort circuit in the Catskills. Here, besides being straight entertainers, they were also what is known as "tumulers"-aides of the hotel manager who, on rainy days, were sent out to "make with the tumult" and, by distracting disgruntled guests, prevent them from checking out. Kaye & Eisen did their tumuling by chasing each other through the halls with meat cleavers, jumping into fish ponds...
Under the shaky structure of the movie industry's distribution system the Supreme Court of the U.S. last week laid a bundle of dynamite. By a 7-to-1 decision, the court found that nine, major producing, distributing and exhibiting companies* had conspired to prevent Chicago's Jackson Park Theater, an independent neighborhood house, from showing films until their box office potential had greatly deteriorated...
...Maximum volume during 1946 is fixed at only about 25% of prewar levels, roughly $800,000,000 in imports and exports. The Potsdam standards which apply to Germany would apply also to Japan. Thus exports will be permitted only to get foreign exchange to buy essential imports to: 1) prevent disease and unrest; 2) carry out the objectives of occupation; 3) establish a minimum Japanese economy...