Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occupiers had come to plant seeds and protect the marsh, to share music and back massages, and to befriend the police. But most of all they had come to protest and to act, to use their bodies as well as their minds to thwart the construction of the plant. They stayed until Sunday, when the police came out of their compound and carried them off to buses and then to jail. Yesterday 880 were still there...
...There's not choice but to be trained in the arts of community survival," he writes. If people begin on the street where they live to convert moral resistance into concrete legal and political activity, they also prepare themselves to recognize and hopefully thwart the Vietnams when they begin...
...organism that counts. The DNA sequences don't really care if they have to look like a lowly assistant professor or a giraffe." If that is indeed the case, he concludes, the DNA sequences will also resist outside attempts to recode them and thus probably thwart attainment of many of the long-sought goals of genetic engineering...
...circumstances, it was wondrous that the drama ended with so little blood spilled: one dead and four wounded by gunfire, a dozen others cut and beaten. That the toll was not higher was in part a tribute to the primary tactic U.S. law enforcement officials are now using to thwart terrorists-patience (see box). But most of all, perhaps, it was due to the courageous intervention of three Muslim ambassadors, Egypt's Ashraf Ghorbal. Pakistan's Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan and Iran's Ardeshir Zahedi...
...least a temporary chill on relations with the U.S., they do so with more military muscle than ever before. Moscow has not only been rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal, it has also increased its conventional forces so that it is today questionable whether NATO troops would be able to thwart a Russian thrust into Central Europe...