Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English language. Until the late 1950s, many newspapers and magazines carefully avoided using it and it was whispered about as a dreaded family secret. But banning the word did not eliminate the disease or lessen its effect. It is possible, however, that our semantical escapism did actually thwart medical research into the disease to a high degree...
...spent his first year in Algeria in military barracks; during the second he was moved to more comfortable quarters. But like another prisoner, former Algerian President Ahmed ben Bella, Tshombe was often shifted from one isolated villa to another. The wary Algerians, who constantly suspected plots, moved him to thwart liberation attempts on the part of "foreign interests...
...information, but Chase Peterson and the other deans would go to jail. But when the committee starts looking for information that is not already sitting in government files, the University's decision will be more important. Fifteen years ago, the Administration denounced Communists but also tried to thwart Joe McCarthy. President Pusey has built part of his reputation on that stand. If he and the members of the Corporation still believe in those principles, they should make it clear that they will not play along with a new hunt for a new kind of campus witches...
Nixon's proposal could provide important benefits for the mail. The department would be freed from the shackles of political patronage, parsimonious appropriations and a jungle of congressional rules and regulations that often thwart efficiency. The reorganization would also provide a financial flexibility now sadly lacking by allowing the postal service to float bonds to pay for the estimated $5 billion-worth of plant and equipment improvements needed to achieve modernization...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted that academic credit should not be given to ROTC courses and that ROTC officers should not be considered regular members of the Faculty. A committee appointed by the Corporation is working not to thwart this Faculty vote but to carry it out. The SDS demand that Harvard violate its contractual obligations bears not relation to the vote of the Faculty...