Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...indignant public statement they charged that many of the victims had no trials and had been shot without the consent of President Syngman Rhee or other civil officials. The clergymen appealed to the U.N. Commission in Korea to prevent any more "kangaroo court" executions...
Members agreed that studying in order to keep out of the army would make men feel insecure, and prevent them from going out for honors, and joining extracurricular activities. "It would," they said, "also induce a greater number of students to apply to colleges with low scholastic standards...
Harry Truman proclaimed that security in the Pacific meant no aggression in Korea. Truman also said: "I have directed the Seventh Fleet to prevent any attack on Formosa." From where Mao sat, this might mean that the whole U.S. policy had suddenly and rashly changed. It might mean that the U.S. would not only try to defend Korea, but would also make the Communists pay for aggression in Korea by protecting their intended victims in Formosa. Mao sat quietly waiting to see if the U.S. would in fact try to regain the initiative in Asia...
...November 1934, he wrote to Newton D. Baker, a rival for the Democratic nomination two years before: "One of my principal tasks is to prevent bankers and businessmen from committing suicide!" Somewhat earlier he had written a friend: "There is no question in my mind that it is time for the country to become fairly radical for at least one generation. History shows that where this occurs occasionally, nations are saved from revolutions...
...feet ("If recovery is dependent on women like that I am agin recovery"), exchanged notes with Virginia's Carter Glass on U.S. fiscal policy, rather fatuously wrote (in 1933) to U.S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long in Rome that he was "deeply impressed" by Mussolini's intention "to prevent general European trouble," and, with a cheerful egalitarian touch, recommended Ambassador Robert Bingham to Britain's King George V as "an old friend of mine and . . . like you, a good shot...