Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this war began, the Irish State proclaimed its neutrality. . . . That neutrality would bring special problems and difficulties of its own was well recognized. It was understood also that it imposed upon us the duty of building up our defense forces, so as to effectively guard our territory and prevent its use by one belligerent power against another. . . . What I would like to say to our American friends ... is this: help us in the above interests to secure these weapons. We are, of course, ready to pay for what we get. And, in the second place, help us, should the blockade...
...mean more than liturgy by that. I mean active acknowledgment by men of the will of God, the moral law of God, the justice and love of God-in their own lives and in the life of the world. The function of the Church is to prevent men from taking anything less than God as their ultimate concern...
...Harrisburg, a woman was found who for 30 years wore Christmas seals on her chest to prevent tuberculosis...
...northern and western coasts of France to Spain. He will have two new 35,000-ton battleships, the Tirpitz and the Bismarck, and other vessels in the North Sea early next year. With these he will try to deliver a knockout blow at our communications so as to prevent us getting the food, the raw materials and airplanes necessary to enable us to continue the war at full strength...
Inside those doors the ten club owners of the National League were meeting for their annual ritual known as the draft. The draft is something the league's bigwigs thought up to prevent the richer clubs from snatching the best college talent. Each club in turn picks, one at a time, 20 college footballers of the graduating class. The club that finished last in the league picks first, the club that finished first picks last. (Whether the club will get the player it picks is another matter; none of the players on the list can be invited to turn...