Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though never a Communist himself, he was a strong supporter of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán's Communist regime, which took power in 1950. As ambassador to El Salvador in 1954, he tried to thwart the U.S.-supported military coup that toppled Arbenz. The new government stripped Asturias of his citizenship, and sent him once again into exile. Last year, after the election of Moderate Leftist Julio César Méndez Montenegro, Asturias was invited back to his country, where he rejoined the foreign service...
...Bunting's appointment of the RPC is particularly irksome to the members of the Ad Hoc Committee because it seems to them to thwart the charge they were given when the Ad Hoc Committee was formed as a result of the hunger strike last spring...
...have offered their own plans for ending the Viet Nam war. But the one proposed last week by the Detroit Free Press is surely a leading contender for the most astonishing of all. In a front-page article, Editor Mark Ethridge Jr. urged the U.S. to "capture instead of thwart the social revolution which South Viet Nam needs." Our "puppet government," he said, must be told it has one year to make the necessary social reforms. If they are not made in that time, the U.S. should negotiate a withdrawal on the basis of the National Liberation Front...
...area have at least doubled; some 1,000 ghetto merchants have complained that they cannot get insurance at all. Watts now has only two major retail stores, one of them a new White Front Inc. department store with fortress-like slits instead of display windows, especially designed to thwart brick throwers. To meet the Los Angeles situation, 108 California insurance companies have formed a $15 million, assigned-risk "Watts pool" that has insured more than 500 merchants against fire and riot damage-though not against the threat of theft that such businessmen face daily. Similar plans are likely to emerge...
...millions of families who tried to buy or sell a house last year learned to their dismay, mortgage credit is something like an umbrella that collapses when it rains. Three times since 1950, the output of new housing has dived after the Federal Reserve tightened up on money to thwart inflation. No other major U.S. industry is quite so vulnerable to swings in monetary policy. Last year the money squeeze gave housing its worst setback since World...