Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the golden robed Princeton swimmers joined in the swell of cheers for Jerry Gorman of the Crimson last Saturday night in the New Haven pool as he led in the pack of Intercollegiate quarter milers to prevent Yale from registering a first in every freestyle event...
...What can the U.S. do to prevent Communist world domination...
...intervening on Feb. 1 to prevent a scheduled Tokyo general strike, SCAP (Supreme Command, Allied Powers) probably saved the conservative Yoshida Government (the strike's real target), but it also pushed labor toward the left-and persuaded many unionists that MacArthur had developed a filicidal anti-union bent. Since then, Premier Shigeru Yoshida's failure to curb inflation has increased tension, and has confronted SCAP with a set of unattractive alternatives: 1) to abandon all strike control and risk governmental and production collapse; 2) to take over immediately full economic direction of Japan, thus puppetizing the government...
...guaranteed annual wage to prevent unemployment and to enable industry to plan for the future, secure that consumer purchasing power would remain constant, keynoted the Cornell debaters' proposal...
...Turning the matter over to the General Assembly would be impossible," he added. "It would go on the Security Council agenda, where a Russian veto could easily prevent any further action...