Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years the U.S. has sought to thwart Communist--and specifically Chinese Communist--policies by maintaining a U.S.-controlled military force in Vietnam. There is little need to give a coup-by-coup account of U.S. mistakes in Southeast Asia. The past few months have revealed to nearly everyone, conservatives and liberals alike, that American military policy in South Vietnam has been a failure...
Kyprios and fullback Jim Griswold lead Penn's defense (thus far surprisingly steady) in its attempt to thwart Harvard's already erratic scoring punch...
...those stylistic pecularities which have drawn so much criticism. He is still the master of the blinding contradiction; his administration, as Walter Lippman tells us bi-weekly, will try to reduce the size of the Federal government while somehow reducing crime throughout the nation and building up defenses to thwart communism abroad. He still expounds the paradoxical platitude--at once grandiose and simplistic; to stop crime the President, "in making appointments to the federal judiciary, must consider the need to redress constitutional interpretation in favor of the public (underlining his)." And he still reveres history while being blatantly a historical...
...plan goes to a House-Senate conference, where Old Medicare Foe Mills will probably thwart the Administration's plans. Even so, Candidate Johnson will be sure to blame Republicans during the next few months...
...pipelines, says Joseph C. Swidler, chairman of the Federal Power Com mission, have had "a revolutionary impact on our economy." The revolution started in World War II to thwart tanker-hunting U-boats; the Big Inch and the Little Inch, from Texas to the Atlantic Coast, were the first major lines. Since then, pipelines have grown so fast that they now transport more than 30% of all the energy used in the U.S. They have created a revolution >n home-heating and cooking, provided cheaper industrial power and, less happily, caused severe wrenches in existing coal and oil industries. Twenty...