Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Guinier also said he doubts the administration's support for the Afro-American Studies department. "Dean Rosovsky has done everything to thwart the development of the department. He personally opposed the establishment of the department. He has always believed that the department should be a committee," he said...
...Catskills summer home. Scotto answered that he had paid $10,200 for this work but that he had paid in cash. Scotto also acknowledged that he acquired a 13% interest in a multimillion-dollar East Side apartment building for only $26. He dealt mainly in cash, he said, to thwart the continuous harassment by Government agents...
Sweeper Peter Sergienko and stopper John Duggan combined with Lorenzo DiBonaventura to thwart any sporadic Ephman attacks. The improving Crimson midfield has recently kept opposition goals and opportunities to a minimum...
...When a giant textile concern like J.P. Stevens can treat its workers like slaves and thwart their legitimate organizing efforts" the continuing importance of labor unions is evident, McBride said...
...from the rain on that one," he says now. In Style is more cohesive. It represents Johansen at his best. By sheer velocity alone it could shake the Top Ten out of its discofied trance dance. The raw intensity of the sound is, paradoxically, the very thing that may thwart the record commercially. Whatever its fate on the charts, In Style shows Johansen as a rock-'n'-roll acolyte-part anarchist, part jester, part street bopper -keeping the faith alive...