Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communists worked overtime to raise chaos last week in Korea's southern zone. Purpose: to prevent U.S. military authorities from carrying out plans for the popular election of a Korean legislative body and the organization of a national administration...
...dentists' guesses: 1) Northerners eat more sugar; 2) the water in Texas (and neighboring states), unlike the North's, is rich in fluorine, which is believed to prevent cavities...
...left hook on a lady in Dublin. She went down for a short count, whereupon Jack helped her up, then let her have another one. Next day in court he agreed to a ten-bob fine, but announced with injured dignity: "There is no law in the world to prevent me getting drunk every night if I behave myself...
...Provisions of the proposed canon: bishops may withdraw Episcopal recognition of a previous marriage, remarry divorced persons after one year, by referring their decision to "impediments," in the presence of which the Church considers the previous marriage no true marriage. The impediments: consanguinity; mistaken identity; mental deficiency "sufficient to prevent the exercise of intelligent choice"; insanity; failure of either party to have reached the age of puberty; impotence; perversion or venereal disease undisclosed to the other party; bigamy; a concurrent contract inconsistent with canonical marriage (such as a "companionate marriage" agreement); fraud; coercion; duress "or such defects of the personality...
...ancient oak tree, which happens to be the home of her friends, the Wee People. Her three selfish, unimaginative guardians want to get rid of the property, uproot the tree. And dispossess the pixies? Not as long as Margaret and her sweet old drunken manservant (Thomas Mitchell) can prevent...