Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...have known the Generalissimo since 1927. While I agree that there is every reason why he might have "an antipathy to the U.S.," I am sure [he gave no] such impression two months ago. He discussed U.S. aid objectively, as the way to prevent World War III ... If those around him are anti-American, we have only ourselves to blame. In 1927, when General Chiang married Mei-ling Soong, he wanted very much to visit the U.S.A. and Europe. Trouble with his Communists, which . . . has continued to this day, kept him from making that trip. We are just beginning...
...reporting on a topic of great significance. It is somewhat unfortunate, however, that . . . the specter of hypnotism was allowed to rear its ugly head in your article-when you neglect to state specifically that precise and positive precautions are always taken in each dianetic therapy session to prevent the patient from slipping even accidentally into a trance...
...demanded: "An overall ceiling across the entire economy, over all prices, wages, rents, fees and so on, with high enough taxes to prevent profiteering and to pay all defense costs, and an all-embracing, effective system of priorities...
...such windfall as the Remagen bridgehead fell into Walker's lap, but he crossed the Rhine at Mainz without fanfare, in assault boats. After that, the XX Corps' hardest fighting was at Kassel, where the Germans fought wildly and vainly to prevent Allied encirclement of the Ruhr. The Reich's back was broken and the rest of the XX Corps' progress, though not bloodless, was relatively easy. After Weimar, Jena, Nurnberg, Regensburg, Walker in early May reached Linz, in Austria, the farthest point of the Third Army's advance...
Last week the whole U.S. had a question to ask of Walker: Would the U.S. get pushed off Korea into the sea? He, of course, did not know for sure. He only knew he would do his level best-which, on the record, was abundantly good-to prevent it. In public he said what he had to say and what came natural to an old soldier: "There is no question whatever about the outcome of this struggle. We shall...