Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...willing to grant full Kennedy Round cuts by next Jan. 1 instead of holding to the original five-year timetable. Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland have notified Washington that they are amenable to similar steps. All these concessions, however, hinge on the Administration's ability to thwart new protectionist moves by Congress...
...presidency, Johnson launched a massive counterattack. During a week whose pace and tempo seemed more attuned to the windup of a bitter election than to its opening hours, the President made it clear that he was prepared to use all of his immense powers and political wiles to thwart his adversary...
Nothing went as predicted. Time and again the outmanned Crimson team came back to stall off the powerful Eli machine. It was the story of a small group of Harvard stars swimming again and again to thwart the Bulldog depth...
Herbert Rawlins, Jr. '27 was a stylist, a player whose grace made him a pleasure to watch. Jack Barnaby '32, Harvard's present squash coach, wrote of him: "It was his pleasure to thwart the crude bludgeonings of sluggers with the rapier thrust of restrained but perfect accuracy." Rawlins took the National title...
...Morgan and his supporting cast, the Yale freshman basketball team, will be out to thwart the Harvard Yardling's attempt at winning their tenth game of the season tonight...