Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgians are willing to endure any hardship to prevent help to Germany, he said. However, he urged that America as send relief based on a scientific appraisal of the minimum needed and after permission had been obtained from England...
...light of the current effort for national nearmament, the proposals were little short of extraordinary. Neglected by the speaker was the fact that not less regulation but more is the inescapable concomitant of a defense program. To criminate bottlenecks, to prevent the very inflation which Mr. Willkie fears, to curb profiteering, and to carry out the pay-as-you-go idea which the Republican leader has endorsed--to do all these things, government activity is required...
...economic and social problems; 2) a heaven-sent chance to ram through, under the guise of wartime necessity, radical social changes that citizens would never stand for in peacetime. Laski calls his program "revolution by consent." He proposes that the owners of property consent to what they cannot prevent...
...Africa. They, too, cry for a crusade to save democracy, and they cannot be hushed by voting, or by turning off the radio. They will keep coming in, these voices of war, keep hammering at the will of a nation that does not want war, that is determined to prevent the spread of war. If it was hard for America to make up its mind about the election, it will be even harder to decide what to do about these persistent foreign voices...
...Best, Haist and Campbell strongly urged that the same regime be tried on human beings, to relieve patients in the early stages of the disease and prevent it in children of diabetic families. Of course, they cautioned, "wide departures from the normal diet are permissible only for short intervals. . . . This is particularly true for growing children who must have ... all the essential food factors." But they felt sure that, with a little experiment, special diets could be worked...