Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schoenfeld, who was introduced by Albert Sprague Coolidge, President of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union, claimed that all those who support the cause of civil liberties should fight for the pardon of the remaining labor leaders in order to make it impossible for future "frumps" to prevent militant trade unionists from expressing their opinions...
Shell-loading by hand is a slow, delicate process in which molten TNT is poured, cooled, hardened, and packed into shells a little at a time to prevent formation of air cavities that may cause premature explosion. Even after such care, many finished shells contain small cavities, must be melted out and repoured...
...Bretton Woods monetary conference, 44 nations undertook to devise a scheme to prevent some kinds of individual tinkering with the world economy. They proposed a monetary fund to regulate the exchange value of currencies and a reconstruction bank to secure international loans for nations which needed capital to get back on their feet. The merits of the plans were debatable. But the significant fact was that attention was being given the biggest problem: making the whole world's economy work. And U.S. businessmen, if critical, were still open to argument...
...William insisted that the touchstone of Government policy should be not the perpetuation of any given economic order. It should be to prevent the waste of that most perishable and essential commodity: human labor. The Government budget, therefore, should be based not on money but on manpower available...
...Great Forest" was afire with indignation, and its flames licked into every corner of the land. From pulpit after pulpit the letter was read, in defiance of police on hand to prevent it. Printing presses throughout Norway ran off copies by thousands. Said Bishop Berggrav: "When the truth becomes something sacred for us, it is then that it can create martyrs." Abashed by the Church's readiness for martyrdom and fearful of popular uprisings in its defense, the puppet government eased its campaign of terror and suppression...