Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proclaims that he is a liberal. . . . Where was Wendell Willkie when the Republicans were fighting ... all of these measures which he now says that he supports? . . . He was doing his very able best to prevent the most dynamic and hopeful project of the whole New Deal-the Tennessee Valley Authority-from functioning...
...minced no monosyllables. What he saw was the need for desperate haste. He quoted Hitler's handwriting on the democracies' wall: Each country will imagine that it alone will escape. I shall not even need to destroy them one by one. Selfishness and lack of foresight will prevent each one fighting until it is too late...
...Claimants to the post of chief executive and two legislative bodies were crowded into the political arena, and Mexicans realized that only a miracle could prevent a bloodletting. Claimant Avila Camacho sat tight, knowing that he had the backing of the Government machine...
...galleys, gifts, ideas, books and last year's calendars like some queer surrealistic fruit tree ready to drop its harvest. His thoughts were gloomy, but no trace of gloom showed on his round cherubic features which, he says, make him look like a rear view of Cupid and prevent his being taken as a serious thinker. He went home for the dinner that in Emporia comes at noon. After dinner he stretched out on his double mahogany bed that stands beneath three ivy-shaded windows, put two pillows under his head, and slept...
...that to the extent that French interests, our independence and our dignity are safeguarded, the new France must accept this invitation." Neither independence nor dignity was so much in evidence as a disposition to curry favor with the conquerors by wreaking vengeance on the Frenchmen who had tried to prevent the conquest...