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Students trying to storm the embassy were thwarted by Iranian troops.
The raids apparently thwarted a truck bombing akin to those that killed two people and injured 200 earlier this year.
Having thwarted some of Bryant's questions by refusing to draw connections, Lewinsky confounds others by drawing alternative connections.
However, in fiddling with my keyboard I discovered that the italic form of æ (in Times New Roman at least) is almost indistinguishable from œ except with a magnifying glass—thus; œ, æ —so I can only assume you have been thwarted by a quirk of the computer!
It also thwarted a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, and thank God for that, for the entire course of history might have been different had the Great Emancipator been cut down.