Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...police entered the Yard "through the fire gate by cutting a lock." They marched through the Yard to the Gate by Harvard Hall, where a University policeman unlocked the gate and let them out. Tonis said that the Cambridge Police "felt it was a necessary tactical movement to prevent injury to the men." The Police Department refused to make any comment...
...prevent the NLF from gaining "an open foothold in the cities...
This fear was part of the rationale for also seeking to prevent other nations from becoming nuclear powers; but behind that rationale was the more basic theorem that the possession of atomic weapons, even in their nonuse, was an incalculable political asset. In a proliferating world community, the U. S. and the Soviet Union would have grown progressively less powerful and influential; but if nuclear weapons could be kept out of everyone else's hands, the two would continue to flourish. The new application of the balance of power concept was indeed conceived, as Schelling pointed out, in terms...
Some of us who were not only unimpressed by his record but had come profoundly to distrust him tried next to prevent his reelection. In our innocence we thought we could do this simply by reporting his record to the voters. I offer this confession as a warning to those of you who may imagine influencing elections is an easy matter. Despite our efforts this time McCarthy won reelection by a large plurality and went on to become the national-even the international-figure known to history. Many soon came to think of him as a defender, almost a savior...
...four were charged with trespass at one or both of two demonstrations: one, an obstructive picket at University Hall demanding full pay for striking Harvard employees and the other an obstructive picket which attempted to prevent members of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities from entering Holyoke Center...