Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three promising wells with an average production of 350 tons daily in the Ragusa area (TIME, Jan. 25). The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. has reported that it, too, has found oil. But when Gulf asked for permission to exploit its find last month, E.N.I, did everything possible to thwart the deal. Mattei started a campaign in Rome and Sicily, got the support of Communists who want no developments that would make Italy prosperous, thus cut their power...
...offensive against it. The church's jurisdiction, he said, "cannot be limited to ... 'things strictly religious' " but extends to "the moral aspect of all law . . . Social and political questions concern . . . men's consciences . . . National and international questions of a political nature . . . touch upon ethics and thwart Man from attainment of his supernatural end in paradise ... It absolutely may not be said that such questions do not come under the authority and care of the church...
...Fred Hand of Pelham, speaker of the house: adopt not one plan but many, and keep all these a secret in order to thwart the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "If we run out of plans, I'd be in favor of the private-school plan ... I believe in segregation so strongly . . . that I'd gladly go to jail...
From then on, the rapid enrichment of the University paralleled that of the nation. While aiding the latter magnificently, Hancock had failed in his unintentional efforts to thwart the former. Harvard's investments climbed to over half a million dollars by 1830, to over a million by the outbreak of the Civil War, and to over ten million at the turn of the century...
From then on, the rapid enrichment of the University paralleled that of the nation. While aiding the latter magnificently, Hancock had failed in his unintentional efforts to thwart the former. Harvard's investments climbed to over half a million dollars by 1830, to over a million by the outbreak of the Civil War, and to over ten million at the turn of the century...