Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...were primed for battle-into print. The National Dairy Council, whose products (whole milk, butter, cream, cheese) were identified by the A.H.A. as cholesterol-producing villains, fought back fiercely. "The idea that replacing some 'saturated' fats [animal and hydrogenated fats] with 'unsaturated' fats will help prevent heart disease is clearly unproved," said the council. Manipulating the diet in favor of unsaturated fats (chiefly liquid vegetable oils), suggested the council darkly, could even be dangerous to health...
Under a black sky, with the star of Bethlehem nowhere in sight, the witches were conjuring to prevent the birth of the Christ child. Then, as if by divine providence, they plummeted into the depths-via stage elevator. Five shepherds struggled across the snowy heath, settled in Brueghel postures around a fire, described their dreams in which angels told them (in Latin) of the Nativity. The scene was the heart of the pageant, but except for a roaring wind machine, the music had stopped completely; it was the ultimate development of a composer who has long since ceased writing...
...that no good could come out of such an Apalachin Jr. sort of meeting between the young toughs and the two ex-cons. But the session had the full backing of New York City's police. For "Big Jim" Vaus and "Pete'' Thomas were trying to prevent a "bop," or gang fight, that might have ended in another bloody teenage killing on East Harlem's dark streets...
...into abstaining or voting no. Addressing the officers of the garrison, he again spoke of the "new" Algeria, which "must be herself, otherwise-and you know this only too well-she will sever all her links with France." He set two tasks for the army: "First of all, to prevent things going badly from the security point of view, which has not yet been completed. Second, fraternity [with...
Melman found several things wrong with this "deterrent system." First, he maintained, military equality will not prevent war, because both sides are ready to fire at the slightest suspicion that the other is planning an attack...