Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FRANCE Heeding the Master France's Communist leaders were busy carrying out orders. The Kremlin had spoken and Messrs. Thorez & Co. were dutifully sowing disruption far & wide. Main target was the U.S. military assistance program. To halt American arms shipments at ports, strikes were set off last week among longshoremen and transport workers...
...four days, the battle raged. One night a band of students piled into cars and started a protest parade, dispersed when a policeman called a halt because they had no permit. The citizens' committee stormed before the school board. At the first meeting the board would let in only two of the protesters at a time. Then, as out-of-town newspapers began to play up the controversy, the officials began to backtrack. School Superintendent Harry Edwards said that the six expelled pupils could come back...
Temporary Halt. "Authors are never shy," observes Author McKenney (of other authors), "not even about details which leave the reader ashy-hued." But fortunately, her Love Story is sufficiently veneered with shyness to keep the apples in the reader's high cheekbones: though it is always a bit vulgar, it is never coarse. It takes the reader through a tragicomic record of Lyman ups & downs, including the death of Sister Eileen in an automobile accident, and draws to a close just before the Lymans and their three children take off for Europe...
...this halt is likely to be only temporary: "We are too passionate, and too blundering," says Author McKenney, to settle down on "safe and comfortable plateaus." Moreover, as she observes in one of the most cutting remarks ever made about U.S. highbrows in general, "even for intellectuals . . . there is a strong, continuing rhythm of life...
...Socialist governments in parliamentary democracies, the evidence seems to point the other way. Instead of the Socialist machine accelerating in a grim geometric progression towards an infinity of state control, the British and Scandinavian models seem to have some inner friction or contradiction which soon brings them to a halt...