Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These precautions did not prevent TIME subscribers from getting their copies of the July 22nd issue by mail. As the demand for TIME rose more copies were smuggled in. Their black market price reached the sum of 300 escudos ($12) a copy, and Portuguese paid as much as $2 to rent a copy for 24 hours. Portugal's clandestine anti-Fascist Committee typed translations of the Salazar piece for distribution...
...deadlock continued-and so did the atomic arms race which the UNAEC was set up to prevent...
...bill authorizing the Chemical Warfare Service with horror and disgust. CWS's results, says Mclntire, "were and are, in my opinion, more . . . devastating than the atomic bomb. . . ." CJ He was contemptuous of his own safety, saying "If anyone wants to kill me, there is no possible way to prevent him." When
...YORK, October 25 -- Soviet Russia, displaying a new spirit of agreement, abandoned today a bitter battle to prevent a complete airing of the politically-hot veto question in the United Nations Assembly...
...Stern Brigitte cannot abide love in others. When a poor schoolmaster and a plain little seamstress wish to marry, she does her best to prevent it-then watches their poverty and sorrow with pretended concern but real satisfaction...