Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professor wishes to concentrate entirelyupon research or a political campaign, he can take off one year in every four, and he will usually find some foundationor committee to pay him for his trouble. Occasionally the Dean's office or the Departments themselves have even had to apply pressure to halt a mass exodus...
Nervous Type. In Wauwatosa, Wis., Marshall Esperseth bounced his car off two trees, knocked over three trolley poles, sheared off a light pole, flattened two parking signs, smashed to a halt against a third tree, confided to arresting officers that he felt shaken...
Meanwhile, American prestige abroad drops to new lows, and men like Charles Bohlen leave key diplomatic posts, and the Hungarian refugee program lumbers to a halt...
Recalled to Saigon by the French, and named Premier after the Communist victory at Dienbienphu, Roman Catholic Diem (his family has been Catholic since the 17th century) took office just as the big powers at Geneva were about to halt the Indo-China war by splitting Viet Nam in two-with the industrialized northern half going to Communist Ho Chi Minh. Sixteen months later Nationalist Diem took the final step. Overwhelmingly victorious in a national referendum which ousted the French puppet-Emperor, and named Diem chief of state, he proclaimed Viet Nam a republic, became its first President. Even with...
Asst. Secretary of the Army Hugh Milton said that the halt in recruiting of men with no prior military service was only temporary and that it was done to "unclog the pipeline" overloaded by the large number of men who have joined up in the last few months...