Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sinn Feiners; in Dublin. A teacher, historian, lecturer, he was acting Sinn Fein leader during Eamon de Valera's imprisonment in "The Trouble" of 1916-21. Diehard Anglophobe and fiery money-raiser in the U.S., O'Flanagan attacked the Irish bishops for allegedly using their offices to thwart full freedom, was thrice suspended from the priesthood...
...beleaguered Europe, in blood-stained Russia, on the tank-tracked Libyan desert, above & below the earth's seas, Santa Claus was getting short shrift. Even in the U.S., his last, best hope on earth, Adolf Hitler and his hissing Japanese friends had tried to thwart him. But their attack came too late to destroy all the fruits of a U.S. Christmas. Now, more than ever, Americans were thankful for what they were about to receive. They were thankful, too, for Dumbo...
David Conroy 2L, who is writing this year's musical comedy for the Club, will finish his work before the leaves, so fears that his departure would thwart the execution of the show are alleviated. For the musical portion of the book, James Lynch '42, who contributed a few of the tunes last year, has been composing most of the songs to equal his former successes...
Sundown (Wanger; United Artists). In East Africa, sundown is the best time of the day. It is quiet then; night is near; and there is nothing to do. There, in a lonely desert outpost, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders, Reginald Gardiner and other British colonials thwart a Nazi scheme to arm and rouse the natives, in ten reels of old-fashioned romanticadventure melodrama...
...status quo by doing nothing. Morgan and his cronies have perverted the defense cloak in order to maintain an unjust open shop. And the President, his feet grown cold since the famous 1932-33 days, has failed to force settlement on the purely union-shop basis and thus to thwart the personal ambitions of Lewis and Morgan...