Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equality], the major question before the Council is whether force needs to be employed. In that event, it is necessary that the vote of the permanent members of the Council be unanimous. They are the nations which possess in sufficient degree the industrial and the military strength to prevent aggression. However, the decisions of the Council can be reached in such a case only by a majority of seven members, which means that the permanent members cannot alone decide to take action. It also means that the nonpermanent members can prevent action...
...Well," said the Tsarina, "if you can foresee all that, why don't you do something to prevent...
Vivien (Scarlett O'Hara) Leigh, who returned to her native England in 1941, went to court with charges that Hollywood Producer David Selznick was attempting to prevent her appearing in a London stage play with her cinematinee-idol husband, Laurence Olivier. Selznick likened Miss Leigh to an "exotic plant" which must be wisely exposed, said that her seven-year contract with him still had a year to run, felt that he had already been overgenerous, as her 1941 trip was "a three-months' leave" which had now stretched to more than three years. Cinemactress Leigh, who admitted that...
...Australia and been carried to other countries by heavy war time traffic. But Dr. Stimson thinks that doctors have just begun to notice what has been happening all along. Possible reasons why the worst damage is done in the early months: 1) the placental barrier which tends to prevent transmission of disease from mother to child takes several months to develop fully; 2) the embyro is more susceptible to infection than the fetus later...
Said Stanza I: In Mazatlán, a tall man masked like the other dancers at fhe Carnival ball shot jovial Loaiza through the head. Two Americans were murdered when they tried to prevent the man's escape. Rodolfo Valdez, 28, known as El Gitano, took to the hills...