Word: warded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be an especially rough afternoon for Goalie Chris Stone. He will have to ward off the plethora of Princeton shots sure to come his way without the assistance of Lenny Keyes, the team's outstanding defense man, who cannot make the trip...
America, now developing tactics to ward off enemy ballistic missiles, will have a "crude but effective defense," MacIntyre commented. Although this system will not be in operation for several years, he claimed that "there is no substantial long-range missile threat because our defense system will be ready by the time the Soviet Union can mass produce an effective weapon...
Herter stepped into politics when the longtime representative from Boston's upper-crust Fifth Ward decided to retire from the state legislature. He knew and liked Herter, and so did the ward's Republican leader, who had roomed with Chris at Harvard. Talked into running, Herter won. Aristocratic, sometimes aloof Christian Herter, a fellow politician once said, "never did have that indefinable something that makes children and dogs follow him down the street"-but he has never lost an election...
...also said one of his major goals is to ward off Communism by wiping out poverty and hunger. The heavy-bearded revolutionist spoke to the American Society of Newspaper Editors while friends and foes of his regime demonstated, in an atmosphere of some tension, outside the hotel...
...problem of economic aid to underdeveloped countries was the subject of the informal discussion led by Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, professors Edward S. Mason, George E. Kirk, and Barbara Ward, Lady Jackson. The panel of economists agreed that the obstacle of political influence and intrigue is one of the greatest impediments to effective economic development...