Word: thwarting
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...master of Yale's Johnathan Edwards College has gone into the haber-dashery business in order to help his students thwart a recently-established University ruling. The law, put into effect over a storm of protest last spring, requires Yalies to wear coats and ties to evening meals...
...Governor Paul Dever (rhymes with never) made the keynote speech. It was, in its way, a classic-the kind of old-fashioned political speech, as simple as a morality play, in which the forces of good (led by Archangels Wilson, F.D.R. and Truman) meet the forces of darkness, and thwart their plot to form atomic monopolies and maltreat widows and orphans...
...Johannesburg Magistrate Edward George Halse knew better than to thwart Swart. Sachs was guilty, he ruled, because under the Suppression of Communism Act, a man is legally a Communist if the Minister of Justice merely says he is. Halse admitted that the minister's power is "wide and drastic, and must make serious inroads on liberty." Notwithstanding, he sentenced Solly Sachs to six months in jail...
Suffolk Downs edged out Wellesley by several furlongs in competition for an early opening. As a Get Rich Quick scheme a man can get about as far by an investment in Ukrainian Uranium as by attempting to thwart the thoroughbreds, but, for those who like theirs in moderation, the track is there in East Boston, the pigs are at the post, and the money . . . well, write the folks that you're studying for provisionals, and include a list of the Harvard Foreign Policy Library "which is requited reading." Seldom fails...
...heart at the prospects of uniting their divided country.*The West, and its good friend Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, are engaged in a great gamble: to give West Germany its independence, and to integrate its troops into a European army before the cries for a free and unified Germany can thwart the plan. So far, 76-year-old Chancellor Adenauer has managed to avoid the accusation that he seeks to keep Germany divided. But his popularity is precarious; the lure of the Soviet siren is strong, and he has but 17 months left in office (if a parliamentary vote of confidence...