Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Irish all right?" Had Kennedy overcompensated for his Cuba power failure in his actions against Big Steel? Poets aside, there were many who thought so. Would he use his massive powers soon again? In the same way? With what limitations? Against any other domestic antagonist that tried to thwart his will? The prospect was somewhat frightening-and despite the popularity of Kennedy's victory, that prospect accounted for a great wave of disputation (see following story...
...time has come for people to cease looking for great organizations afar off, and to begin looking for things that can be done close at home. Every man who invites a friend into his home, gives him literature to read, and informs him of the danger, is helping to thwart the Communist program." Citizens so educated and so inspired can carry the fight to the Communist enemy both abroad and at home, and "upon such a foundation the political, legislative and cultural programs necessary can be built...
...fallout protection is no joke. But this pleasant little pamphlet, by showing us how easy survival really is, offers us solid reassurance that when it comes to nuclear war we can thwart the Commies every time. They're even helping us do it. To begin with (and this is what the pamphlets' authors posit their entire civil defense program on, the enemy apparently plans to use only five-megaton "nuclear weapons." ("There are much larger weapons which could do more damage, but the damage from larger weapons does not increase in direct ratio to the size of the weapons...
Trujillo is dead, but a legacy of a political system without politics lingers on to thwart the efforts of those who seek to establish representative government in the Dominican Republic. At present, the unexpected seems to have happened: a coalition government has been agreed upon, and for the first time in three decades Dominicans may have a government composed of several political forces...
Over the centuries, the Roman Catholic Church has reasoned its opposition to mechanical birth control on the basis of natural law: i.e., God gave man his sexual pleasure with a reproductive string attached, and to separate one from the other is to thwart the will...