Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many students were immediately suspicious of the joint committee and feared that it would serve only to thwart more radical student action. But Dean Griswold selected as members just those students who had expressed greatest interest in instituting changes, and designated Clark Byse their Chairman...
Finally, they assert that they have the right to participate in shaping the process which so shapes them. They suspect the Establishment of trying to thwart their innovative tendencies, they understand the corruptive effects of power, they believe they must participate in changing the system before it swallows them...
...radical publications, such as Ramparts, aimed explicitly at exposing issues which will embarrass the government. The reporters Reston constantly refers to are writers a la New York Times) who are basically in agreement with our government's aims and thus feel compelled not to print anything which might thwart our foreign policy. But what about the new writers who feel it is their duty to subvert a foreign policy they are fundamentally opposed to. How do they fit into Reston's patern of journalistic restraints on our government. Apparently they don't, and this makes the book unnecessarily limited...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). David McCallum displays his musical talent when he turns English horn player to thwart Thrush...
...Vorenberg hopes that the commission can promote more efficient cooperation between the various agencies, state and federal, which are involved in crime prevention. "I think everybody recognizes," he notes, "that the system works against itself because there isn't close coordination." The correction people and police people tend to thwart one another by not working together on common problems...