Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter expressed the hope that the senators would prevent the "wise policy of material assistance to anti-Axis forces from becoming the disastrous policy of military intervention and domestic dictatorship...
...Eastern position advocated by American Defense (I am not an author of it) is designed to improve our chances of continuing to draw the line in practice. It does not urge a bluff but a definite stand, with men if necessary. The object is to prevent our enemies from building up the strength to make us really fight, later, in much less happy circumstances...
...Since a child learns as much in its first two years as in all the rest of its days, lack of human contact at an early age will forever prevent mastery of speech and the upright gait...
Cross-examined, Osbert admitted that the Sitwells had refused an offer of 150 pounds and an apology from Reynolds News. Snapped the defense: "What is the object of this action, publicity or money?" Snapped Osbert: "To try to obtain some compensation for the damage done and to prevent the newspapers from libeling artists in this...
...major objective of present American policy in Asia is not the protection of American commercial or territorial interests. It is to prevent the spread of totalitarian conquest by the Asiatic member of the Axis. A Japanese conquest of Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies would immeasurably increase the danger of world dominance by the Axis powers. The security of the United States, of the entire British Commonwealth, and of all other democracies de- pends upon successful resistance to the Japanese thrust...