Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russian tanks." Aided by hidden arms caches, Savimbi's guerrillas last week ambushed several Soviet trucks and troop carriers. With seemingly solid support from the 2 million-strong southern Ovimbundu tribe (out of a total Angolan population estimated to be 5.5 million), Savimbi has the potential to thwart M.P.L.A. control over nearly half the country...
Purdy was banished to the penalty box at 12:02, followed by Jim "Sonny" Liston at 13:19, and though Petro was able to stop the Friars with a couple of great saves while his team was two men short, he could not thwart the entire PC power play...
Moreover, in the Administration's view, the Angolan aid issue is a basic test of American will in the face of Soviet expansionism. Kissinger argued that only because of the U.S.-supplied equipment, the anti-Soviet groups in the former Portuguese colony have so far managed to thwart Moscow's desire for a foothold on the southwest coast of Africa. Among other things, Soviet air and naval bases in Angola would give the Russians the capacity to intercept Western supertankers en route from the Persian Gulf to Europe...
...other end of the ice, Brian Petrovek will try to thwart the advances of the Terrier's top line, Peter Marzo (4 goals, 3 assists), Terry Meaghar (4 goals, 1 assist) and Mike Fidler...
...censure it has inspired, it is fortunate that the resolution is just that--rhetoric. The U.N. showed that it can advance a people's fight for national liberation when it called for the establishment of the Israeli state in 1947. Israel's continued existence demonstrates that the U.N. cannot thwart that same struggle. Whatever the United Nations says or does the State of Israel will survive as the expression of the right of the Jewish people to national self-determination...