Word: thwarting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most part, the $475 million went to cover the U.S. commitment to the seven-nation international gold pool in London. Meeting secretly at the Bundesbank in Frankfurt when Britain devalued, the pool governors determined to continue sales of gold at $35 an ounce in order to thwart speculators who bought in hopes the price would rise-which would, in effect, devalue the U.S. dollar. The big payment by the U.S., which has a 59% share in the pool, by no means represented the total cost of the defense. Britain, West Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and The Netherlands, who hold...
Jose A. Mora will step down next May after 13 years of service as secretary general of the OAS. So far the Central American and Carribean nations have managed to thwart the will of the hemisphere's great powers--the U.S., Brazil and Argentina--on the choice of a successor. This is an unprecedented development in the history of the organization, and it may set an important trend for the future...
...inevitability exposes only the giant moth of Russian nationalistic aggression-cunningly Stalinist. This contention is substantiated by a report in your NATION section. The identical "liberalized" Soviets who now espouse Libermanism and plan to triple their output of autos have secretly developed the Fractional Orbital Bombing System designed to thwart U.S. nuclear defenses. We cannot afford to fall into a false complacency when dealing with the Soviets. They have not yet proven any sincere desire to coexist...
There are some pretty snowscapes, though, shot in the Italian Dolomites. And there is one hilarious reprise of an old burlesque gag: girl in bed raises crucifix to thwart approaching snaggletooth, who merely chuckles. "Baby," he says in a richly Yiddish accent, "hev you ever got the wrong vempire...
...over 3,000,000 sq. mi. of cobalt-blue Pacific that Magellan sailed through their very midst without sighting a single one. In their glittering lagoons and rain-forested redoubts, the Japanese positioned their power to control all the Pacific in World War II-and the U.S. fight to thwart them made a litany and legacy forever of such unlikely flecks on the map as Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian and Peleliu. The Enola Gay roared off from Tinian to drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima; years later the shock waves of the world's first H-bomb tests rolled...