Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning they come by the hundreds down the valley, some on the road and some across the paddies. Around 8 o'clock a detachment of South Korean policemen turns up, and an electric change comes over the people. Now, as the police approach and halt them and order them to stand, and then to move on, they leap at every command with a livid and unmistakable fear...
...tank-led Red columns drove through Chinju and on toward Masan, only 30 miles from the main U.S. supply port of Pusan. West of Masan the grim and battered G.I.s of the U.S. 24th Division threw themselves into the line once more, and the Red advance ground to a halt. Lieut. General Walton H. Walker hastily moved the 25th Infantry Division to the southern front to shore up the 24th. This week the 24th had moved north, was facing another Red assault on the Naktong River...
Would scolding be enough to halt the rising tide of prices? Harry Truman hoped so, and it might. But it never had before...
...Much Success. Since the Generalissimo appointed him governor last December, Wu has ably wielded the broom of reform. He has managed to halt inflation by curbs on the amount of money in circulation. Wu has also managed to repeat his feat of Hankow: he has balanced Formosa's budget-not without drastic forced loans and capital levies...
...Halt the War." The Worker got its war news from the Moscow and Pyongyang radio, reported solemnly that U.S. correspondents were trying to "soften U.S. responsibility for atrocities...