Word: thwarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordained the act of love for man's procreation, and to thwart this purpose is. according to Roman Catholic doctrine, a sinful contravention of God's will. Birth control by mechanical or medicinal means is absolutely forbidden by the church, and women for whom childbearing is a health risk are enjoined to practice abstinence, either total or periodic, from sexual intercourse. It follows that Catholic doctors and nurses may not prescribe contraceptive devices, even for non-Catholic patients. But should Catholics, when they are in a position to do so, stop non-Catholic doctors from prescribing contraceptives...
...radioactive mantle 600 miles overhead, which overwhelmed the sensory devices of earlier satellites. Explorer IV's extra beef-it is seven pounds heavier than Explorer III-went into instruments custom-built to examine this ionized belt, which may reach all the way to the sun and could well thwart mortal designs on outer space. Within minutes of launch, Explorer IV was wheeling with the other moons, 170 miles up at the lowest, 1,400 miles up at the highest, sending back vital intelligence on this cosmic barrier...
...struggle to build communist industry and the new socialist society, and the fight against "base class enemies," usually American hirelings, who want to undermine the communist paradise by sabotage and direct destruction. Stories of this type are designed to convince the people of the legality of communism and to thwart so-called "bourgeois rudiments" and "drawbacking tendencies," including religion...
...John Wesley Lord cited the Little Rock crisis (''The moral sense of the nation has been outraged''), continued: "We must seek and find the courage to do the true thing. Today God is troubling the waters. No man has the right or the power to thwart his holy will. We must find out where God is going and then get things out of his way, lest we perish. Our prayer to Almighty God ... is that we will enlarge the boundaries of our hearts to embrace in one great fellowship all his children . . . This...
...flight. Actually, Eisenhower is no whirlybird newcomer; as NATO commander (1951-52) he racked up many copter hours inspecting troops and installations in Western Europe. * Asked the Boston Globe's Herbert Kenny: "Will Ike find rapport / at Newport? / Will his temper distort / at Newport? / Would the weather dare thwart / his transport of sport / the day they escort / Ike to the seaport of Newport...