Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There was no use two bulls going in there and locking horns," explained the farm-raised Fullmer, who does not let his profession prevent him from being an elder in the Mormon Church...
Died. Dr. Frederick Sumner McKay, 85, spry dentist who was the first to recommend fluoridating drinking water to prevent tooth decay after he found that fluorides occurring naturally in Colorado Springs' water supply protected the teeth; in Colorado Springs...
...hoch!" Then it was his own countrymen that Paul worried about; he had to crouch for cover in the midst of an abdominal operation as R.A.F. rocket-firing Typhoons attacked. Writes Paul: "All I could do was keep a firm hand pressed on a swab over the wound to prevent the viscera slipping out of the patient's abdomen...
...Home Office's legal adviser told the Cabinet that Casement had "completed the full cycle of sexual degeneracy," and he urged that the government, "by judicious means, use these diaries to prevent Casement from attaining martyrdom." His advice was followed. The diaries were shown to King George V, who was shocked at their degeneracy; so was the Archbishop of Canterbury. More to the point, they were shown to U.S. Ambassador Walter Hines Page with the casual remark by Prime Minister Asquith that he "need not be particular" about whom he might in turn show them to. Gradually...
...Governor's resolution fell short of Rockefeller's original aim in one critical area. Not one Governor got behind Rocky's compulsory shelter idea, the strongest section in his resolution. Said Indiana Republican Harold Handley: "All we have to do is to prevent war, and then we don't have to have shelters." Added South Carolina Democrat Ernest ("Fritz") Hollings aimlessly: "There is a right to live and a right to die. Housing, highways, health, and things of the living are more important. I doubt the public would accept such a program...