Word: thwarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unusual voting alignment, the Soviet Union joined the U.S. in supporting this proposal, which drew five other Security Council votes. Britain cast its first U.N. veto, and France joined to thwart the resolution. A later Russian proposal based upon the U.S. plan but without Lodge's backing also went down before the two vetoing powers...
...year was 1953, Dwight Eisenhower's first-and un-happiest-in office. At the heart of Ike's troubles were the many Republican Congressmen who, unable to accept responsibility after their long political exile, spent most of their time trying to thwart the Republican Administration. At a Cabinet meeting on May 22, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson said he wished more Republican legislators would realize that they were no longer members of the opposition. Replied the President: "Brother, I heartily agree." When Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, at that meeting, cautioned that the national debt might go above the legal...
...nine representatives further made a "gentleman's agreement" that "no affiliate clubs shall thwart, subvert or in any way frustrate the activities of another club...
...Arabs might well find the cohesion they now lack, and might become increasingly dependent on the Russians. In this view the Big Three foreign ministers were unanimous. Successively they reaffirmed to Sharett the 1950 guarantee by which the U.S., Britain and France promise to use force if necessary to thwart all-out hostility by either Israel or the Arabs against one another...
...Moore is one of 4,000,000 U.S. farmers, a group so varied as to thwart the sociologists' search for a "typical" member. Yet mid-century U.S. farmers in general have characteristics of working and living that set them apart from farmers of other lands and times. The world (including the recently visiting Russians) marvels at U.S. farm production. How American farmers do it is a mystery, even to most of their compatriots. The secret: they preserve individualism and personal enterprise while embracing a thousand forms of cooperative effort, from federal price supports down-or up-to such voluntary...