Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back home, Lebanon's sharp-trading Christian and Moslem businessmen ruefully reckoned their losses. An estimated $50 million in foreign funds have fled, and bankers moaned that even if a compromise could halt the bloodletting, Lebanon would be a long time regaining its reputation as a safe, stable island in the turbulent Middle East...
...capacity of the Eisenhower Administration for delay aften verges on the remarkable. Its current efforts to halt the recession, for instance, have been largely confined to attempts to predict its end. While these prognosticatory feats accord in general with the Administration's "confidence" line of economic thinking, they do not represent any serious attempts to analyze or cure the decline...
...predict that that picture of Marilyn Monroe in TIME, May 5, will bring the sale of sack dresses to a screeching halt. Hell, that might as well have been Vaughn Monroe. JACK SHERIDAN JOHN HOWBERT Denver...
...instead returned to North Africa to train paratroop commandos, built up an elite corps which worshiped him as "le Pere des Paras" (the Father of the Paratroopers). Led the French paratroop landings in the short-lived Suez campaign in November 1956, became embittered that a political decision to halt the invasion wiped out his rapid gains...
...Thai. Now the planes are grounded because the airline does not have enough money to operate them. Philippine Air Lines almost came a cropper by pushing too hard on international flights to the U.S., Japan and Europe, lost so heavily that the late Philippine President Magsaysay finally called a halt...