Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tight-fisted Democrat Harry Byrd, who figured that 61 Senators were sure to approve; by next year they would be voting for tax cuts anyway. The Senate agreed to vote in time to have the measure on Harry Truman's desk at least ten days before adjournment, thus prevent a pocket veto (i.e., killing the bill by inaction after Congress is out of session...
...done about as well as such realists as Van Kleffens thought it would. Despite warnings that U.N. was not world government, the man in the street from San Francisco's Embarcadero to Calcutta's Chowringhee focused his attention on the international police force that was supposed to prevent aggression. On its second birthday, U.N. showed no sign of becoming a supersovereignty...
Their intention was not to prevent a vote; it was just to postpone it. They were out to wage a delaying action in the hope that President Truman's radio appeal to the U.S. public (see above) would stir up another torrent of telegrams to the Senate and possibly win a few uncertain members to their side. Alben Barkley, Democratic leader, tried to dissuade them. "Sometimes pressures do more harm than good," he said. But the little band of desperate men would not listen...
...tour of India's riot areas. Barefoot, staff in hand, leaning on his grandniece Manu, he had padded through the water-soaked fields and the mixed Moslem-Hindu villages, preaching peace. Last week Gandhi planned a symbolic return. "My work is in Noakhali," he said. "Nobody will prevent me from going there." For Gandhi considered himself a citizen of both new Indian states. "I will go freely to all parts of India . . . without a passport." The question was, would other Indians be able to do the same...
...second-floor office. Looking alertly at us through his black, tortoise-rimmed glasses, General Li outlined his movement. "We Koreans have behind us 4,000 years of good history. The present situation is confused only because the people have forgotten their heritage. Our nation must have the strength to prevent invasion by another nation and we must build up our youth to this...