Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese heavily bombed Kunming, Chinese terminus of the Burma Road, to prevent, they said, a Chinese drive into Indo-China or later through Burma into Thailand...
Axis strategy has been to divide enemy forces and demolish them fragment by fragment. Allied strategy, which became obvious the moment the Americas fell into the war, is to prevent any further division. The Allies, possessing the great land masses of the world and the great sea bastions between them, must temper their chain and let no link be broken. Then, with unified, coordinated action, they must use the chain to beat the enemy down...
...vaccine made from the herpes virus (allied to the fever blister and shingles virus) helps to prevent severe nervous degeneration if given over a period of several months. Dr. Neal has tried the vaccine on many patients, with apparently good result...
Popularity. But such capitalist baggage did not prevent Joe Davies from giving Russia a detached once-over. The extrovert Ambassador saw Russia, rather than his own prejudgments of Russia. While most Moscow emissaries stayed in their salons and tried to imagine they were in London or Paris, Joe Davies rustled around looking at industry in Leningrad, agriculture in the Ukraine...
...from a Red Cross teacher. The teacher bustled around selling the Red Cross textbook, warning the students to keep cool, not to faint at the sight of blood. "If you see an accident," he said, "call a doctor at once. Your job is to make a victim comfortable, and prevent complications. You are not a substitute for a trained physician...