Word: thwart
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...spirit of Euripides is Judith Anderson-as well she should be. She acted the title role in the adaptation's memorable 1947 premiere. At 84, Anderson plays Medea's redoubtable old nurse and reaches a peak with the oncoming slaughter of the innocents, vainly attempting to thwart the horror with chilling words of prophecy...
...like the U.S., is supporting the military campaign of El Salvador's government against leftist guerrillas. Some Latin American experts regarded this friendly abrazo as naive and misguided. Argued Johns Hopkins University Professor Riordan Roett: "The idea of a U.S. condominium of interest with the Argentine military to thwart revolution was a terrible one. Its demise is no loss...
Mrdfielder Rich Doyle scored a goal with seven minutes left in the fourth quarter and line mate Rich Rainaldi scored another with only three minutes left in the period to thwart a furious Dartmouth comeback and secure a 9-8 win for the Harvard men's lacrosse team in Saturday's showdown at the Business School field...
...accelerated. A vitally important debate--in which the slapdash Freeze! is only a marginally useful source of information--is now raging. The power of such grassroots controversy to affect policy has been confirmed by Ted Kennedy's eagerness to capitalize on it, and by Ronald Reagan's efforts to thwart it. And that potential is perhaps the best reason for hoping that the initiative for arms control has permanently shifted to the people in the streets and away, from even the most well-meaning of politicians in the Congress...
...future under his three bickering sona, wants to give everything to John, the youngest and least appealing of the brood. Eleanor, his Queen, who in youth divorced the King of France for a tempestuous marriage with Henry, has aged too and embittered; all she has left is determination to thwart Henry's choice, whatever desire of his she can detect...