Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meanwhile, they will exploit their greater opportunities in weaker Asia. ¶Their threat to Europe will be used to stave off any Western attempt to thwart their designs in the East...
Like Tight Little Island, Titfield Thunderbolt catches the efforts of a small village trying to thwart the stuffiness of legal procedure. Faced with losing their venerated by uneconomical railroad service, the population decides to buy the line and operate it themselves. Since the train provides a convivial place to drink before the doors to the town pub officially swing, an affluent lush happily furnishes the money for the project. Intrigue follows in the form of nefarious busline operators and a pompous London transportation official. However, a sentimental cleric, who gets the town behind him by pointing out the local motive...
...Socialists out of the coalition government and to make a Communist stooge Chancellor, in return for concessions from Moscow. "Such a catastrophe and criminal nonsense must be prevented," Gruber recalls himself as saying then. He credited himself with telling the Socialists of the plot in time for them to thwart...
...years previous to the construction of the Herbarium, this group sent three formal protests to the Corporation, about the proposed move from the Arboretum. The dissenters contend that the Arboretum "always should be, as in the past, a semi-independent institution of Harvard." Moving to Cambridge, they feel, would thwart the purpose of Arnold's bequest...
...Doctrinaire Left. The Eisenhower Administration thinks of its foreign policy as progressive in that it seeks to thwart the Communist drive by expanding the political freedom and the economic life of peoples everywhere. This aim might be expected to appeal especially to the Socialists, who heavily influence British thought...