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Word: halt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Political parties have taken to assembling private armies, and they objected when the government tried to halt them. Cabinets have changed so often that it became a Karachi joke that a minister had to fill his pockets in six months because that was all the time he was going to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: To Be Happier & Freer | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...began planning for the new test series even before they finished the last. "More and more," wrote the Christian Science Monitor's U.N. Correspondent William R. Frye, "students of Soviet diplomacy are leaning toward the theory that Moscow never wanted to stop testing, that it proclaimed a unilateral halt last March without the slightest intention of making the cessation permanent, and that the whole objective of Soviet diplomacy in this area is to avoid a test ban without assuming the onus for so doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Tumult & Fallout | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...Soviety Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin replied Moscow would agree to halt tests only if the United States and Britain accept an immediate ban "for all time." He accused the Western Powers of doing all in their power to "barricade and block the way" toward agreement...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Air Force May Fire Thor-Able In Exploratory Shot to the Moon; U.S. Ready to Suspend Atom Tests | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8--The United States announced today a halt in its Formosa Strait convoy operations and readied an effort to make Red China's cease-fire a permanent...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Pius XII Dies at Albano | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

...Nationalist firing was the first since Red China had proclaimed a week-long halt in its artillery pounding of the off-shore island effective early Monday. No further clashes were reported...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Pope's Condition Grows Worse, Upper Body Paralysis Remains; U.S. Questions Atom Test Halt | 10/8/1958 | See Source »

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