Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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World War III? Partial, unadmitted intervention would have some advantages in Chinese eyes. It might serve to protect the great Yalu River power dams (see map) from which Manchuria draws electric power for its factories. It might save face for the Communists in Asia, might prevent the U.N. from creating a stable, anti-Communist nation on China's borders. It would surely profit the U.S.S.R. which would be delighted to see U.S. energies drained by a long Asian...
...prevent this, U.N. commanders sent the U.S. ist Cavalry Division racing toward Unsan to bolster the sagging R.O.K. units. At Unsan the cavalrymen ran into a Red buzz saw (see below). One field hospital south of Unsan treated more than 500 U.S. casualties in a single day. But, though badly cut up, the ist Cavalry Division averted a Communist breakthrough -at least for the time being...
Seagrave had originally been held under Burma's catchall Public Order Preservation Act. The complaint had later been changed to high treason to prevent him from winning temporary freedom under habeas corpus. His health had worsened in jail, and he had been moved to a comfortable private home under guard. When TIME Correspondent Jim Burke interviewed him last week, Seagrave had almost regained his normal health and spirits, but he was pale and looked all of his 53 years. His voice had stopped trembling, but his hands were stained from chain-smoking...
...such a rampant epidemic, the schools might have been closed. But Dr. Gimby's skullcaps virtually checked the spread. Even if roughhousing boys bump heads, the caps prevent the transfer of broken, infected hairs. Each child has to have three clean caps a day. Mother has to boil them every night...
...through stage movements blocked out long before. She had cut down most of the operatic arm-flailing ("the less acting you do the better"), tried to keep them from staring dead ahead at Conductor Stiedry for the beat. Exhausted Margaret Webster hoped she had succeeded in her effort to "prevent the eye from too grossly contradicting...