Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...School Tie. Though a monopoly, BBC is neither directly owned nor controlled by the government. It is set up as a public corporation under a Royal Charter that is normally renewable every ten years. The Postmaster General, who controls all of Britain's communications, may prevent anything from being broadcast. But he has never exercised his right of censorship...
...that a "reformation of Christianity" is under way in China. A declaration issued in July and signed by 1,527 pastors, students, theologians and church leaders, it announced, had warned that "imperialist" countries would try to use "Christianity to carry out provocative, agitational activities and develop reactionary power." To prevent this, the declaration had recommended that Christian churches should be promptly purged of all "imperialistic influence," deprived of all support from abroad,* subjected to compulsory unification of "various sects" and compulsory indoctrination against "imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism...
...Delaware, and rose to great wealth and power from a small gunpowder mill on Rising Sun Creek, near the small town of Susquehanna. "Neither the setting nor any of the characters ever existed," says an author's note at the beginning of this novel. But that will prevent few readers from noting a more than surface resemblance between the Barons and the Du Ponts, another clannish French family that fled the French Revolution, settled in Delaware, and rose to great wealth and power from a small powder mill on Brandywine Creek, near Wilmington...
...prevent overcrowding, a quota system would probably have to be set up so that an equal number were allowed to go to the Houses as went to the Harkness Commons. The only complaint voiced so far about the plan is the amount of extra accounting involved, but as all dining halls are run by a central University department, this objection is not strong enough to block the program...
...months later, when the Korean war began, Acheson picked up the hot potato again. It can be argued that he had to do this to prevent a possible invasion of Formosa and the consequent deterioration of the American strategic position in the Pacific, but propaganda-wise it was another bad mistake. It appeared as if America were reiterating its support of the discredited regime...