Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the game Yovicsin was counting on his plan to use two separate units to thwart the Crusaders. "We thought we could hold our own with 25 men," he said at the press conference. "By shuffling back and forth, we thought we could keep fresh men in there all the time, but there was too much Holy Cross to work this successfully...
...machines are designed to thwart slipshod penmen and student impersonators, according to Foster M. Palmer, associate librarian for research and circulation...
Washington wanted an envoy who would "promote, not thwart, the neutral policy of the Government." Monroe returned to the U.S. in disgrace, and it looked as if his public career might be finished, but he was liked and admired in his home state, and within a few years after his recall he bounced back as Governor of Virginia.* In 1803 Monroe's old friend Jefferson sent him to France as a special envoy to help negotiate the U.S. right to navigation on the Mississippi, a cause dear to Monroe's heart. Once again in the thick of history...
...plane: Soblen had swallowed a great wallop of barbiturates and collapsed on the way. Unconscious, he was rushed to Hillingdon Hospital-and his enforced return to the U.S. was off again. The delay was only the latest of Soblen's ingenious, utterly determined efforts to thwart U.S. justice...
First and most obviously, said De Gaulle, the two nations must unite to thwart Soviet "ambitions of dominance." Secondly, he reasoned, "because the alliance of the free world-Europe and America-cannot preserve its self-confidence and solidity unless there exists on the old continent a dam of power and prosperity of the same sort that the U.S. constitutes in the new world. Such a dam can have no other basis than the solidarity of our two countries." Thirdly, peace and prosperity "from the Atlantic to the Urals" depend on a "single, unified Franco-German policy...