Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty of Design, and his buildings in Cambridge. For the most part, the paper's attacks have used vicious ridicule. Last August, for example, the Harvard Summer News (the CRIMSON's summer alias) printed a picture of the Married Students Housing Center with the caption, "University Moves to Thwart Early Marriages...
Light is the most vexing problem in any museum. Sert & Co., after long thought, have built quarter-cylinder "traps" that concentrate light the way a radar antenna gathers in radio waves. The effect is to eliminate streaks and reflections. To thwart "artnaping," that ever-popular Riviera crime, alarms flash and doors snap shut like those in a sub marine if any art object is touched...
These indictments will and must raise doubts in the minds of the Negroes of Albany and the nation about the Attorney General's determination to secure equal justice for all citizens. This destructive action can only serve to thwart, rather than serve, the cause of justice in the South. It merits the sharpest criticism...
...leaders will also propose the establishment of a teacher program in Prince Edward County, Va., where schools have been closed since 1959 to thwart integration. NSA is also planning to add three full-time workers to be stationed in the South...
...ambassador was visibly agitated. In a swirl of cigarette smoke, he pondered a diplomatic crisis: another ambassador was trying to hire away his cook. How could he thwart this act of piracy without causing an international incident? Baffled, he called his secretary through the intercom. "Get me the Dean," he said. "Tell him it's important...