Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this Harry Truman, avowed optimist, added a conditional postscript as he chatted in the officers' mess at Fort Benning, Ga. The world could escape "that third one," said he, so long as an armed U.S. pointed the way. "I believe in preparedness to prevent hostilities in the world at large," he declared. "It took us two wars and 30 years to find out that our place in the world was one of leadership. Now we want to maintain that leadership for peace and the welfare of the world . . . and I am just as sure as I stand here that...
Arriving from France to be treated at Boston's Jewish Memorial Hospital, Raoul Dufy, 72, famed left-handed painter of gay race-track and beach scenes, admitted that "art and arthritis are the two most important things in my life. I must try to prevent one from killing the other...
...Washington, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson backed up McAuliffe's warning and added a few guarded facts. Defense measures "now in effect or in preparation," said Johnson, "should prevent disastrous damage" if a future U.S. enemy used germ warfare. Meanwhile, the "program of research and development in biological warfare is being continued" at full blast...
...game even matching with Springfield by playing the Indians to an 8 to 8 tie Saturday afternoon on the Business School Field. Bill Plissner, Crimson attackman, broke a 7 to 7 deadlock in the first overtime period, but Springfield scored in the second overtime to prevent the varsity from taking its second league victory...
...cast in Schroeder's role commits the murder solely for money; there were many unemployed in the Germany of the Twenties. The murdered man happened to be an accountant for Blum (Haas), and the investigator suspects that Blum may have murdered his employee to prevent his disclosing tax evasions. As the investigator questions the actual murderer, he thinks his questions are disclosing Blum as the murderer, but the audience knows that it is actually his prejudice making all the illogical connections as he leads the murderer into building a case against Blum...