Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educators, labor unions" could walk amongst the rows of white crosses in the cemeteries; if they could see a boy die, or smell the stench of death, they could realize how fed up and tired and sick we are of seeing soldiers killed. It is up to us to prevent as many deaths as we can in the next war. This requires training for the men who will fight it-this requires conscription...
...greatest dragnet roundups of all time, the U.S. Army in Germany arrested 80,000 Germans last week. To prevent alarm-spreading, a half-million G.I.s first isolated the target communities by cutting their outside communications, then searched all houses in the U.S. zone, stopped every person moving on the streets and roads. Some 15,000,000 Germans were sifted through the screen...
...Berlin's U.S. occupation zone U.S. authorities prepared to padlock most of the twelve to 16 nightclubs. Announced purpose: to prevent "promiscuity and perversion" among the demoralized population. Meanwhile Berlin's curb markets operated full blast with many Russian soldiers among the eager purchasers. U.S. soldiers were asking and getting $500 for a $20 wristwatch; $700 for a wristwatch with an impressively loud tick and a luminous dial. For a bar of chocolate they could get a girl...
...year-old Frederick Moore Vinson. In a solid and detailed 71-page report to the President and Congress, dealing primarily in economic facts, he said: "While we plan and produce for the destruction of Japan ... we must work toward transition, the kind of well-timed transition that will prevent depression from coming to us as the guest of peace...
...also feel ourselves guilty, inasmuch as we were not able, in consequence of a series of mistakes, to force an anti-fascist unity of workers for the overthrow of Hitler." In view of the fact that in the past the German Communist Party had done everything possible to prevent an anti-fascist unity of the workers, this modest admission was a political necessity...