Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thunderous noise, the finely tuned machines soon began to show signs of fallibility. Once around the three-mile course and slightly in the lead, Tempo VI hit a floating obstacle in the rough water, ripping the fragile skin off its starboard front sponson; Lombardo had to slow up to prevent shipping too much water. Notre Dame, the 1937 Gold Cup winner, went on to win the first heat, then had engine trouble and missed the second entirely. Albin Fallon's Miss Great Lakes had engine trouble, fell behind; three other boats dropped out altogether...
...Henry Ford II called the proposal "a disastrous precedent for scuttling . . . the law." He would not become "a guinea pig . . . for all industry." Ford's negotiators would agree to setting up an impartial umpire who would determine whether the union had made "prompt and honest" efforts to prevent illegal walkouts; Ford would not sue if the umpire said they had made the efforts. No, said U.A.W. to that...
...dusted with the chemical to kill broadleaved weeds. From the rice fields it had drifted, sometimes as far as 15 miles, to the cotton fields. If possible, 2,4-D should be sprayed rather than dusted. If it has to be dusted, it should be mixed with oil to prevent drifting...
...achieved his parenthood through artificial insemination over the longest distance yet recorded. Sealed in two thermos jugs and packed in ice, the Imperial Regal sperm (diluted to serve 100 cows) took the long way round to Australia. It was flown across the Atlantic in a British diplomatic pouch to prevent its being opened and spoiled by unsympathetic customs...
...civil servants; an order empowering shop committees to dictate a purge of industrial employees; transfer of the best Rumanian Army corps to the Communist-run Ministry of Interior; purge of several thousand Army officers; an order that peasants must thresh their grain in the presence of Government officials to prevent widespread hoarding...