Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...this Harry Truman, avowed optimist, added a conditional postscript as he chatted in the officers' mess at Fort Benning, Ga. The world could escape "that third one," said he, so long as an armed U.S. pointed the way. "I believe in preparedness to prevent hostilities in the world at large," he declared. "It took us two wars and 30 years to find out that our place in the world was one of leadership. Now we want to maintain that leadership for peace and the welfare of the world . . . and I am just as sure as I stand here that...
...cast in Schroeder's role commits the murder solely for money; there were many unemployed in the Germany of the Twenties. The murdered man happened to be an accountant for Blum (Haas), and the investigator suspects that Blum may have murdered his employee to prevent his disclosing tax evasions. As the investigator questions the actual murderer, he thinks his questions are disclosing Blum as the murderer, but the audience knows that it is actually his prejudice making all the illogical connections as he leads the murderer into building a case against Blum...
...struck pay dirt at the first swing of his pick. The case was that of the Texmass Petroleum Co., an oil outfit which got authorization for a $10,100,000 loan from RFC in 1949. The money has not yet been paid out and Senator Fulbright hoped he could prevent its ever being drawn...
...took the varsity lacrosse team over half the game to start moving against Tufts on Tuesday, but a slow start was not enough to prevent the favored Crimson ten from scoring a 13 to 7 victory over the Jumbos on the Business School Field...
Unanimously, the Court upheld the Arkansas "right to work" law which makes criminal any use of force, threat, or violence to prevent, try to stop, or aid in stopping a worker from engaging in a legal occupation. The CIO was appealing the case for two of its members, convicted by their state...