Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States of America is now at the head of the imperialist... expansion of the world . . . [This] is directed toward unleashing a new war as a means of winning world supremacy . . . We must keep our powder dry . . . Only an armed people equipped with strong productive capacity can prevent...
This world unification may begin with violence (in the way, say, that Bismarck forcibly united the German states) or it may emerge from a compromise between the free enterprise of Western Christendom (the U.S.) and the totalitarian economy of the Byzantine orthodoxy (the U.S.S.R.). Only one thing can now prevent one world, says Toynbee: the destruction of all our major civilizations by the atom bomb...
...took a job as manager of a cotton agency in Le Havre. Mamma did wonders with his small pay and her almost total lack of French. The children born in France had to ask others what Mamma said when she scolded them in English, though both parents tried to "prevent us from becoming expatriate mongrels." As the years passed, easygoing Papa became fairly well off and brought his family to a comfortable home in Paris. But it was Mamma, tiny and handsome, who staved off the early crises and somehow managed to discipline her brood of bilingual barbarians...
Students whose card tastes run only as far as Seven Card Stud, or even the more elite Contract flends may be interested to learn that the University owns a pack of Hindustani cards invented by a queen to prevent her husband from pulling out the hairs in his beard...
...percent for the Communists, but most authorities now agree that it will be closer to the former figure. If his proves true, de Gasperi will not be forced to include the Communists in his government and risk another Czechoslovakia, and he will undoubtedly to able to prevent civil strife with American arms. If, on the other hand, the Democratic Front receives close to a majority of the votes, their exclusion from the new government would lead to civil war which the rightists would be unable to quench...