Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gurion's right lurks the Irgun, which calls him a dictator because he wants to prevent Irgun from operating a private army. The Irgunists are intense nationalists and "revisionists," which in practical present terms means they are gangsters and expansionists, itching to carry the fight into Arab territory...
...original plan for Operation Coronet had been to prevent just this by slicing in between Markos and the Albanian border. The taking of Mount Ammouda, in the northern cornerstone of the Gramos redoubt, finally slid the knife in almost far enough to do the job. Reported TIME Correspondent Mary Barber...
Officially, Pakistan was as altruistic as India. Its troops were there, said Jinnah's government, to prevent refugees from crossing the borders. Meanwhile, on a 300-mile front that stretched crescent-like across India's biggest state, the fighting raged in one of the strangest wars of modern times...
...Evanston, Ill. three weeks ago, or on the trip over. The 1948 squad differed a little from former U.S. teams: the majority of them were ex-G.I.s, many were married, and some had kids at home. At one training table, nobody followed the ancient Greek rule - designed to prevent dyspepsia and headaches - that only the lightest topics be discussed at mealtimes. The conversation volleyed from the high price of neckties to reincarnation (one sprinter wanted to come back as a dog, another as a race horse). Then it lit on the most dyspeptic subject of all - track. The lean...
Last week Brown's cult was still growing; crowds still swarmed to his farm. He had begun to intone like the Psalmist and to compare himself (favorably) with Christ. The master cell, said Brown, "takes all the fight and hatred out of men and animals alike. It will prevent disease and pestilence. It will prevent famine. It will make pigs fatter; make cows produce more milk. It makes the atom bomb obsolete . . . The master cell is my God, and it will bring peace...