Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Clement Attlee, wearing a sprig of white heather in his lapel, told newsmen that he was "soberly optimistic" about the prospects of his forthcoming meeting with President Truman. Then the airplane, which bore the name Cathay, took off for Washington, carrying Attlee toward a conference which he hoped would prevent a war with Communist China. With him, the plane carried the hopes & fears of most of western Europe...
There were 300,000 people in Pyongyang (an equal number had gone north with the Communists in October). When it became known last week that the Allies would not defend the city, refugees began streaming south. To prevent them from blocking troop movements on the roads, the Allies barred two Army bridges across the Taedong River. But some refugees climbed down a levee in the shadow of a quiet Buddhist temple, and crawled across a shattered old vehicular bridge. Others waded across. They were pitiful reflections of defeat-wretched, fear-stricken and numbed with cold...
...sent a letter to the Dean, urging that "present parietal rules, properly enforced, should stand," and stating that "no modification of rules, short of complete banning of women, would prevent occasional unfortunate incidents...
Opinion on the Korean crisis varies. Some would favor "giving up the moral issue involved in Korea, giving up even nominal control in Formosa if it can prevent an all out war with the Chinese communists...
...another 50,000 copies of Newsday were on newsstands. But Newsday didn't pat itself on the back for its progressive journalism. Instead, it candidly confessed that in one way it had fallen down on its journalistic job, that it had not done all it could to prevent the accident from happening. Said Newsday somberly: "We have known for years that the Long Island Rail Road was in deplorable condition. The wreck at Rockville Centre [TIME, Feb. 27] tipped us off to the dangers . . . Yet we did too little . . . People forget. And Newsday, being people, and being concerned with...