Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arms embargo (imposed after the United Nations voted to partition Palestine). But undoubtedly it was not the first time Zionists had been drawing on hidden U.S. sources for arms and ammunition. Britain, which has been supplying some Arab states with arms for their national armies, has vainly tried to prevent their diversion to Palestine guerrillas...
...arrival of FM radio was a big help. With conventional AM, the static from any passing streetcar could distort a "fax" page. FM made for smooth reception, but it raised an intriguing question. Since a broadcaster could convert to facsimile for $10,000 to $15,000, what was to prevent anyone with an FM license from going into the newspaper business...
...awkwardness and obscurity of much of its style, the detailed technical discussions of which it is full, the abstractness of many of its issues, will prevent "Process and Reality" from over directly affecting more than a small number of industrious and independent thinkers. But its indirect effect has been and will continue to be enormous, it should forever remain, a landmark in the history of the intellect, a perpetual source of fundamental ideas, a monument in metaphysics, cosmology and theology, a watershed separating off twentieth century from nineteenth century thought...
...postwar turmoil, Victor Emmanuel, appraising unrest at home and tottering dynasties abroad, handed Italy over to Benito Mussolini. It was the first -and last-time he ever defied his ministers; henceforth he was impotent to prevent his downfall. But Benito, the blacksmith's son, promised to look after the little king. The Italian people paid the price for 23 years...
...press conference later, the council's mild-mannered chairman, Edwin G. Nourse, former vice president of Brookings Institution, was less chary. The scarcity of coke, steel, pig iron and railway cars, he said, "is likely to prevent production from overshooting the mark. . . . Given a fair crop year, there's a distinct possibility that 1948 will see an abatement of the inflation...