Word: thwarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This strikes many experts as wholly out of step with the Administration's determination to make the U.S. a more forceful world power. In the conduct of foreign policy, economic aid can promote peace or security, as in the volatile Middle East, or help thwart Communist subversion in poor countries by improving living conditions...
...cheese factory, lay in the flood plain of the Kickapoo River. Five times in the past 75 years, the village was hit by devastating floods. After one, the citizens sent an arriving Red Cross contingent home. They would take care of themselves, they said. And they did. To thwart the rampaging river once and for all, they decided to pick up the whole business district and move it half a mile away and 55 ft. higher...
...this and other points - including a new scene concerning the premiere of The Magic Flute, which Salieri tried to thwart - the New York production is at variance, not always wisely, with the original production at London's National Theater...
...appointment of the OSS veteran-as long as he selects a capable deputy to take care of the details that he prefers to shun. But first Casey must survive a tough grilling by Senators on accusations of misconduct as SEC chief, including an old charge that he tried to thwart an SEC inquiry of Fugitive Financier Robert Vesco in 1972. Casey, with typical bluntness, professes no concern. Says the CIA nominee: "I've been confirmed by the U.S. Senate four times. I don't think there's any question I'll be confirmed again...
...also a major test of the city's removal ordinance, which is slightly more than a year old. Designed primarily to thwart condominium developers, the ordinance requires board approval before taking a rent-controlled property off the rental market...