Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yugoslav refugees would tell what things were like under the Stalinist boot. That morning the Communist paper L'Humanité had summoned the faithful to break up the meeting. "Everyone to the Wagram tonight at 7! Silence to the insulters of the Soviet Union! The way to prevent the meeting is to get there first...
...made Abdullah his prime minister, promised to be a constitutional ruler in future; then the Maharaja lit out for the relative safety of his other princely state, Jammu. In New Delhi this week Prime Minister Nehru called for a U.N. plebiscite, shouted: "Is the Pakistan Government too weak to prevent armies from marching across its territory to invade another country...
...Lesser Worries. The Brookhaven conferees heard some schemes for safe shipment (to researchers and doctors) of radioactive material. Examples: make shipping boxes too big to be carried in a pocket (too close to the body); put horns on boxes to prevent their being cradled against the stomach (a vulnerable spot...
Lesser restraints were asked for the other eight because, said Clark, to prevent these companies from acting jointly might discourage rather than promote competition. The Government was thereby forced to acknowledge what will probably be one of the strongest arguments against its case: the fact that many security issues nowadays are so huge that underwriters have to work together to sell them...
Last Tuesday, one of the more insidious news items of recent times slipped into the press and lay quietly in small print amid the flurry and bombast of election returns. The gist was this; State Attorney Clarence a. Barnes had filed a bill which would prevent all Massachusetts schools, private or public, from employing as teachers Communists and "others who advocate the overthrow of government by force or violence...