Word: thwarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind other reforms: a combined water supply-hydroelectric scheme for Teheran, completion of the much-needed Teheran-Tabriz railroad, low-cost workers' housing. He told Zahedi and Finance Minister Ali Amini to speed the return of the royal family estates, taken by Mohammed Mossadegh four months ago to thwart the Shah's plans to parcel out the land to landless peasants. Under the Shah's scheme, the peasants will make a small payment for the land, work it with the help of loans financed by the Shah...
...Just how Robertson, a neophyte in power politics, or his companion, Assistant Secretary of State Carl McCardle, were to persuade shrewd, sly, dedicated old Syngman Rhee to abandon his lifelong dream was not explained. One weapon at hand: a threat to cut off economic aid should Rhee continue to thwart an armistice...
That this attitude has results which thwart the free research and expression that is vital to education in a democracy is a point made too often to need support here. What must be remembered, though, is that even though a healthy attitude for controversy and research still exists at most universities, this does not mean that academic freedom has not already been limited. Freedom dies piecemeal, for every violation that comes to light, there are scores of actions that were self-repressed--meetings that were never held, research conclusion never expressed, political activity never taken up, humanitarian caused that failed...
...Last Farthing. In Sheffield, England, Steuart Davis admitted to a judge that he had spent the last $20,000 of his fortune in seven months and turned to street cleaning to thwart his wife's am-Dition to get alimony, added: "She's no Rita Hayworth...
...lifetime, Gallaudet received little gratitude. A slender, sickly man, he graduated from Yale and the Andover Theological Seminary, but bad health seemed destined to thwart him in everything he tried. He was tormented by doubt ("I am languid, and cold, and slothful ... I am much, very much, too indolent"), and tortured by such weakness that he never dared take over a parish. It was not until he started teaching Alice Cogswell that he knew what his career was really...