Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While mistrusting both tax cuts and wage boosts, the public "clearly favors some Government action" to halt the economy's slide-principally public-works programs, especially roads and schools...
...words sank in. Khrushchev jeered at President Eisenhower's comment on the Soviet decision to stop nuclear tests: "If Eisenhower really thinks we have stopped atomic and hydrogen tests for propaganda reasons, then why don't he and other Western statesmen try the same propaganda and halt tests themselves...
Your excellent reports on France's worse-than-Gestapo activities in Algeria and Tunisia shock the conscience of all freedom-loving people and should convince our congressional leaders to halt the flow of economic and military aid to such an irresponsible and unstable country...
...fiery debate over whether the U.S. should halt nuclear tests is flaring up as the nation gets ready for this summer's tests at Eniwetok. (Somehow it never seems to flare when the Russians are testing.) Last week, as Washington waited for Russia to strike the propaganda pose of unilaterally halting its own tests, the British Labor Party's Hugh Gaitskell, a likely future Prime Minister, called upon Britain to declare a unilateral test ban of its own. In St. Louis, Washington University's left-leaning Physicist Edward U. Condon predicted that because of radioactive fallout from...
...weeks end, after Committee Accountant Carmine Bellino gave the U.A.W. top marks for accounting procedures and no corruption. Chairman John McClellan gaveleed the hearing to a halt. In four days, little had been accomplished. Good Publilc Relations Man Reuther. with a leashed temper and soft sell, had made no new enemies. More important to him, he had even discomfited those he already...