Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concerned, it is hard to see any difference, even in degree, from Hit ler's burning of the books. Here were certain statements available for the great majority which were disliked by a small but vocal minority. The decision imposed was designed to allow the smaller group to prevent the larger from entertaining or considering these facts...
Should Should Don't Not Know Prevent any member country from starting a war of its own against an outside country 79.0% 7.0% 14.0% Decide which country is right if two members got into a dispute 75.9% 8.2% 15.9% Decide what military strength each member nation can have 69.0% 13.6% 17.4% Have a permanent military force of its own, stronger than any single nation 54.0% 23.3% 22.7% Regulate the rights of air planes from one member nation to land on airfields in other member nations 61.1 % 14.0 % 24.9 % Decide what tariff rates should be charged by member nations...
...years, this was a shock. No longer will Boss Hague be able to sit back on election night, wait until all other Jersey votes have been counted, and then send in whatever Democratic total is needed from Hudson County. Boss Hague still had a good chance: war priorities may prevent the manufacture of enough voting machines for November installation...
...plenty, Authors Pearson and Paarlberg rose like skeletons at the feast to point a bony finger. Said they: "The food program has been subservient to the inflation program whereas the inflation program should be subservient to the food program." Their point is that "the nation has been trying to prevent visible inflation by fixing low ceiling prices, and in so doing has effectively encouraged consumption of highly prized foods." Result: consumers are doing precisely what their ration books have been unable to prevent-they are eating more and better than in years...
...frantic doctor tried to find her, partly to save his precious radium but mostly to prevent the lady from getting radium burns. Presently the patient phoned to report that her little bandage had "come loose" (she had not been overexposed). It had disappeared into the hairdresser's plumbing, 19 floors up in a Madison Avenue skyscraper...