Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ravenous Papadopoulos reach for power. Another reason, insiders whispered, was that Papadopoulos-despite his oath last week-intends to dethrone Constantine completely and cut off the generous allowance that permits the handsome King to live comfortably in Rome. Sooner or later, it is believed, Papadopoulos will try to thwart international criticism of his dictatorship by creating a new republic with himself as President and by writing a new constitution that would restore "disciplined democracy"-without a King or freewheeling anti-Papadopoulos parties...
...France in 1968, a high school teacher named Gabrielle Russier fell in love with one of her students. He was 17 and thus legally a minor. His parents invoked the law to thwart the affair, at one point having Miss Russier arrested and even sending the boy to a sanitarium. After several months, Miss Russier took her own life in desperation. The episode became a cause celebre in France and the subject of at least three books...
Floyd Lewis, who only played part of that game, is back at full strength, and with the personnel changes made by head coach Bob Harrison after the Dartmouth game, the team will be better able to thwart the Green's quickness...
Attempting to thwart him in that ambition and salvage him in the process is Lola, the bright, pretty, redheaded daughter of a policeman. Romantically attracted by Heck's violence, she desperately tries to erase it with passion...
Elixir Mixer. Many automotive engineers have long dismissed oil additives like STP, Bardahl and Wynn's as all but useless in normal engines. Most motor oils today are fortified with so many acid neutralizers, detergents and thickeners that any additives can thwart their carefully calculated effects...