Word: halt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Try. Joe Curran's game had started weeks ago. To Joe's porkchop demands his Communist associates had added some ideological parsley. It was high time "to halt the drive of shipowners . . . towards a new and more devastating world war." So Joe said blithely: "Hit the bricks June 15," knowing that 73,000 East Coast seamen would obey...
General George Marshall's sharp eye saw a chance for Chinese peace. Chiang Kai-shek was willing to halt his armies in Manchuria for seven days; Communist Negotiator Chou En-lai wanted a one-month armistice. Marshall asked shrewd Dr. Lo Lung-chi, head of the pink-tinged Democratic League, to help him work out a compromise. Together they led the rival leaders to a middle ground: a 15-day truce in Manchuria...
Delaying Action. In the Senate, there were furious backstage maneuvers. Ohio's Republican Robert Taft had already cried the first "Halt!" to the President's whip-cracking proposal (TIME, June 3). Belatedly, Democrats set to work. Florida's Claude Pepper, ambitious to be the leader of Franklin Roosevelt's heirs and of the left-of-center Democrats, began a near-filibuster...
...would like to go back, perhaps to California, if he could take his family with him, settle down and send his children to U.S. schools. But in Mexico, despite a new agreement to send 54,000 braceros north for this year's U.S. harvest, there is agitation to halt further export of labor. Mexican labor leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano asserted that Mexico itself needs the braceros. Others argued that this export of Mexican labor would lower production of Mexico's foodstuffs. There were other implications. During the war Canuto and his comrades earned...
Right-hander Joe Phelan held the huskies to two runs in the first seven innings and even doubled to drive in one of the Stahlmen's two tallies, stealing home to tie the score, but he was unable to halt an eighth inning relay that cost the game. The Varsity nine will be seeking its fifth win after losing five for the season when it faces Dartmouth at Hanover this afternoon...