Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...next war, if it comes, will be the greatest disaster that will have befallen the human race up to that moment. I can think of only one greater disaster: the extension of the Kremlin's power over the whole world. Fortunately the measures required to prevent the one are the same as the measures required to prevent the other; they are those that strengthen the forces on the side of human freedom. It is painful that there is such an inadequate realization of the urgency of the problem ... I wish some supreme orator could rouse all western nations...
...strengthen the forces on the side of human freedom," the U.S. would have to reach a clear-cut decision as to what it was going to do to prevent the Communists from breaking up the strengthening process. Practically, that decision was more important than whether the U.S. would use a hydrogen bomb. If it burked such practical decisions as those involved at Saigon, the U.S. could be sure that a situation would arise in which a hydrogen bomb would be used-and not necessarily...
...prevent that, the U.S. was willing to speed up the procedure for using the Rio Treaty, and thus provide trigger-quick retaliation against anybody disturbing hemisphere peace...
Because malpractice suits are costly to defend, even when the doctor wins, Dr. Regan and the County Medical Association are concentrating on trying to prevent them. For example, a doctor must not tell a patient that a broken limb will be "as good as new," for that can be regarded as a verbal contract. He must not promise a cure...
...Faculty Library Committee ruling comes as a result of a great many complaints by professors in the past year. The regulation is intended to prevent the loss of irreplaceable periodicals...