Word: thwarts
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...precisely these weaker nations that may sometimes need more help than Alianza aid or other good works to thwart Communist aggression. "In my experience," concluded Mann, "the men who have contributed most to the social, economic and political reform in this hemisphere are men who have understood that the Communist danger is not met by good works alone...
Fonda makes frantic efforts to ring in a company lawyer, a doctor and a hyperthyroid magazine editor (Sandy Baron) to thwart the ultranatural-childbirth plot. This keeps the stage busy, but what keeps the play moving is undrying freshets of laughter, the limber comic pacing of Director Gene Saks, and the abrasive tension of the generational tug-of-war. The son-in-law's nose is keener than his intelligence. He scents corruption in every institution, but he demands a kind of impossible social purity, something akin to repealing the Industrial Revolution. The father has permitted an urgent sense...
Cabled the New York Herald Tribune's Barnard Collier: "The U.S. action was meant to thwart internationally trained Communists who are fighting alongside the leftist rebels. Its effect has been to give the Communist world a rallying cry, to create dozens of Dominican Communist martyrs and to turn an increasing number of rebels against the U.S." Said New York Timesman Tad Szulc: "The U.S. finds itself identified with a military junta that is widely hated, and it may be standing on the threshold of a violent showdown with the highly popular rebel movement...
...Sponsors. All too aware of past attempts to thwart Negro voting rights, the writers of the bill have added a clause that would hog-tie evasive Southern legislatures. Once a state comes under federal vote controls, all its voting laws would be frozen as of last Nov. 1. No new regulations could be put into effect unless the District of Columbia federal court-a notably pro-civil rights body-approved them first. Moreover, even the qualifications on which a federal registrar would judge voter applicants would be approved by the Civil Service Commission and the Attorney General, although Congress...
...adopted in 1934 to thwart Nazi spies hunting German assets that had fled and were hidden abroad. Later Geneva was regarded as the financing center for both extremes in the Algerian war-the French O.A.S. and the Algerian F.L.N. Today some U.S. officials believe that the banks shield dol lars that have evaded U.S. taxes and foreign aid funds diverted by grafters in underdeveloped nations...