Word: thwart
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...replace families that had left, urged Negroes to avoid a wholesale rush into the area. Given a choice between a quota and a ghetto, Negroes cooperated. The result: an integrated but balanced community. Across the U.S., more than 500 similar fair-housing committees have been set up to thwart blockbusters...
...Tone. If the Negro vote was not powerful enough to thwart the Wallaces' gambit, it managed nonetheless to shake such local despotisms as the Dallas County sheriffdom of Jim Clark, the nationally televised heavy of the Selma march last year, and to settle old scores against the likes of Al Lingo, the onetime state police chief who was humiliatingly beaten in his primary bid to become the sheriff of Jefferson County (Birmingham...
...presence of some 4,000 Egyptian troops has helped thwart six anti-government plots in the past year alone in coup-happy Iraq. After a helicopter crash did what the attempted coups had failed to do and killed President Abdul Salam Aref (TIME, April 22), Egypt's President Nasser wanted to be sure that Iraq's new ruler would be as friendly to Egyptian aims as Aref. Off to Baghdad went Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, Egypt's No. 2 man, ostensibly to attend Aref's funeral but essentially to see that Nasser got what...
...system of law enforcement which comes to depend on the confession," continued Goldberg, "will, in the long run, be less reliable than a system which depends on extrinsic evidence independently secured through skillful investigation. If the exercise of constitutional rights will thwart the effectiveness of a system of law enforcement, then there is something very wrong with that system." Despite this manifesto, the basic Escobedo rule was actually limited. "We hold only," said the opinion, "that when the process shifts from investigatory to accusatory -when its focus is on the accused and its purpose is to elicit a confession...
...book, and as usual it is riding high on most bestseller lists, with 70,000 copies in print. Also as usual, the hero is firm-chinned, clean-limbed-this time a young American economist named John Craig who, armed only with good manners and innocence, is recruited to help thwart an ingenious Communist scheme to penetrate U.S. security. The plot involves a trip to the Greek island of Mykonos, and MacInnes evokes a picture of its windswept charm, just as in previous books she evoked the charm of Brittany, Venice and Berlin. Despite the current mania for Bondian gadgetry...