Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, Beacon Hill matrons sat themselves down on their historic redbrick sidewalks, in a last-ditch fight to prevent city workers from ripping them up, replacing them with concrete...
Replied Thorez: "The General Federation of Labor has been overrun, or is in danger of being overrun, by Trotskyist elements. In order to prevent this movement from getting out of hand, we decided last night to support the workers' demands...
Amalgamation would, first of all, remove the obstacle of competition for advertising, they stated, and prevent needless duplication of sections such as Faculty, History, Activities, and Sports. With additional funds obtained from the merger, they added, these sections could be expanded...
...Clark is guilty of innuende, at a time when Mr. Clark himself calls for "clear thinking." It is true that the United States is not yet committed to a ruthless imperialism. The Truman-Vandenberg Doctrine is not yet passed. It is the very aim of Mr. Wallace to prevent our foreign policy's sanctioning such imperialism...
...little of the conspiratorial bitterness generally supposed to pervade the Soviet Union. "Nowhere have I ever met more generous, kindly folk, nor any who behaved with such instinctive courtesy." Members of the UNRRA mission rode about in their own automobiles as they chose, "nor did anyone ever try to prevent us talking to people on the streets." Workers in factories arid on farms were obviously short of comforts, and grumbled about hard times. But the grumbling was "not much different from that of American consumers who are fed up with food shortages and house hunting...