Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vichyminister Joseph Darnand's notorious "Blackbird" militia. He had denounced no one. In fact, he personally had saved ex-Premier Reynaud and Léon Blum from Gestapo execution. The prosecution confronted Laval with a letter he had written to Pétain: "... A few spectacular executions will prevent disorder and anarchy. . . ." Cried Laval: "I respect human life." (Searing laughter in the courtroom...
...landing lights. At both Merida and Vera Cruz, Braniff passengers were forced to use the planes' cargo boxes in place of landing stages. They toted their own baggage, picked their way through barbed-wire fences to enter the fields. C.M.A. parked trucks around a Braniff plane to prevent it from taking...
...dissolute Emperor, who often complained of its excessive weight (10 Ibs.), used the Imperial Seal to authenticate all official documents. Like the engraving on currency, its elaborate background carving was designed to prevent counterfeit...
...Neither sulfa drugs nor penicillin will cure or prevent tuberculosis, leprosy, typhus, tularemia, undulant fever, virus diseases (e.g., infantile paralysis), mumps (probably a virus disease), whooping cough, colds and influenza, pregnancy...
...coffins rose 150%, the cost of prayers for the soul soared from $5,000 to $15,000. And the need for both coffins and prayers increased because the people trusted garlic (almost unobtainable at $20 to $50 a stem), and red paper crosses pinned on their doors to prevent cholera. Others found a rooster tied to a corpse more efficacious. Many heard that a stagnant pool behind a certain temple would save them, and the police had to drive away would-be drinkers...