Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the Red armies had been stalled on the Warsaw approaches by fierce assaults of German armor. The Polish rebels had vainly tried to prevent four Panzer divisions from getting through to the east for this fight. The Russians were forced to evacuate Ossow, a town seven miles from the Warsaw suburb of Praga-the first time they had lost a town since their summer offensive started. At week's end the Nazis were still able to mount 20 attacks...
...Enemy's Best. A hundred fighters had taken the air; twelve were confirmed destroyed, twelve were probables. The Jap home air force's most resolute opposition had failed to prevent a single U.S. element reaching its target. By the time the last bomber left, the afternoon sun had been blotted from Yawata's mills. Smoke was so dense that bomb bursts from the last planes could not be seen...
...late. When World War II got under way, Sebastian naturally decided that one of the "indispensable conditions of peace" was the establishment of a single religion that could be shared by East and West alike. "It is only by deliberately paying . . . our primary allegiance to eternity that we can prevent time from turning our lives into a pointless or diabolic foolery...
...President, his Vice President-elect Dr. Raúl de Cardenas* trotted nervously across a shadowy lawn where U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden was dining with friends. Drawing the Ambassador aside, he spluttered that rough, tough General Manuel Benitez, Chief of the National Police, planned to seize President Fulgencio Batista, prevent Grau from assuming the Presidency by setting up a military dictatorship...
...their corporate income when their in dividual tax bracket is much lower; 3) because high corporation taxes raise, some times pyramid, the cost of goods; tend to keep down wages, make investment so unattractive that much employment dies stillborn out of "tax considerations." To prevent use of corporations to avoid personal taxes, Ruml proposes a 16% tax on undistributed profits...