Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...message in a companion's arms. There is also a captive German officer who wistfully admits that he misses his frau and kinder. But despite a liberal complement of platitudes, The Four Days of Naples never really becomes embarrassing. And it does invent many lively and believable ways to thwart Germans--probably the critical test of a movie that never even presumes to squeeze clumsy lessons out of the bestiality...
...United States--of selecting its projects according to their technical feasibility without regard for any political considerations, Representative Robert Sikes (D-Fla.) maintains that "there should be firm resolve on the part of the United States to make to contribution to any U.N. fund which is used to thwart the foreign policies of the United States...
Vern Strand outrebounded Dartmouth's Coker all evening, but the 6 ft., 5 in. sophomore made several amazing leaps to thwart Crimson scoring attempts...
Wesleyan wasted little time in carrying the game to the Crimson secondary. Only a good stop by goalie Whitney prepared the Cardinals from converting a clever pass play into a first minute tally. Seconds later, fullback Terry Winslow broke up a two-on-one fast break to thwart another possible score. Wesleyan Brian Sharp followed with a shot that missed just to the left of the goal...
When undergraduates fly at the HSA, they generally have little trouble finding a subject of controversy or an enhancement into an area volunteer organizations consider theirs. But the efforts of volunteer organizations to thwart the HSA are also attempts to preserve the last backwaters of the amateur undergraduate, to stay for a brief moment the flood of professionalism into the college...