Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...from perfection itself, has many political allies who are incompetent, reactionary, corrupt. But the U.S. has one transcendent political and moral responsibility: to prevent war by stopping the extension of Soviet power short of the point where it could make a victorious war. To discharge that duty, the U.S. needs allies-as clean as possible. But it needs allies-clean or dirty, just as Britain and the U.S. needed reactionary and tyrannical Russia against Hitler. U.S. opinion tends to whitewash some allies (as it whitewashed Russia in 1941-45) and to scold ineffectually at others (e.g., China). Either by wishful...
...follow a streptococcus infection of the nose and upper throat. Doctors have long been aware of this fact without knowing why. Last week, Dr. Charles H. Rammelkamp announced in Cheyenne that he and a team of researchers had found out. They may thus have found out how to prevent most rheumatic fever cases...
Plans for the Smoker also include a raffle, "either for a doorprize or one of the female entertainers," said Yamin. More beer outlets will be provided in Memorial Hall to prevent the crowding of the past, and as usual soft drinks will be served for the abstainers...
They are basing this intellectually sound distinction between public and private rights on premises which are false. They are setting up for themselves criteria which not only prevent them from exercising true independence of action, but which also set them apart from and make enemies of those who do follow criteria of justice and reason. The elimination of these discriminatory clauses voluntarily would make it possible for justice and reason to be exercised by the clubs and clubmen...
...talking impromptu as he usually does. Said he: "There can be no crossing [by Communists to Formosa] if our Navy makes it clear that ships carrying troops will not be allowed to cross . . . Formosa is a place where a small amount of aid, and at very small cost, can prevent the further spread of Communism ..." New Hampshire's Styles Bridges cried out: "Are we men in Europe and mice in Asia?" Not all Republicans felt so strongly. Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, the party's chief spokesman on foreign policy, still shied from discussing Formosa "until...