Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What are we arming to defend? We are arming, I take it, to prevent such a change in the political and economic situation in this country as would make us a subservient people to a master state. We are arming to prevent such a revolution in our way of life as would make this land for everyone who values liberty a prison house in which to live...
...cruisers, eight destroyers, 18 submarines and about 100 long-range bombers (some of them U. S.-made Martins). In the Far East the U. S. has two cruisers, 13 destroyers, twelve submarines besides patrol and bombing planes. Against an attenuated Japanese supply line they could play particular hell. To prevent this, Japan would probably be forced to give her cargo craft the support of her fleet, with the danger that the U. S. Fleet might cut it off from home...
...reference to the recent stories in the newspapers concerning a possible effort by the U. S. to prevent Russian help to Japan, Meyendorff pointed out that Russia's exports to Japan are practically nil and that 80% of Japan's imports come from...
...often encountered lions' nests hidden in tall grass while plowing the wild virgin land, and the angry beasts sent natives and oxen running in all directions. Lions showed the utmost cunning in discovering and outwitting his tricks to prevent them from preying on the domestic animals...
...Wheelwright's reputation is based on several books of crankily learned, lyrically didactic verse. Political Self-Portrait, like its predecessors, is full of what seem like the antics of an annunciatory angel dancing on the top of a Harvard education. But that does not prevent the book from bringing its reader hard up against an incandescent, no-fooling poetical and political faith...