Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radical approach of calling a halt to the perpetual merry-go-round that surprises the economists. The present method of circular borrowing-to-repay-borrowing would probably accomplish almost equivalent results to those of the new scheme, which is, in essence, to stop all borrowing and repayment...
Labor Trouble. At this point, Macmillan's fortune took a turn for the better and Gaitskell's for the worse. Opening the Bermuda debate in the House of Commons, Macmillan boldly seized on the left-wing Laborite cry for calling a halt to H-bomb tests, before Britain has a chance to try out the first one it has made. "Would the right honorable gentleman accept the logical consequences of abandoning the tests, which means abandoning the weapon?" asked Macmillan. Gaitskell retreated. Finally he replied: ''The Prime Minister is perfectly right. Our party decided to support...
...Dave Beck. Hoffa had run up a list of arrests, e.g., for brawling in a picket line, that he smilingly admitted was "as long as your arm." Even so, nearly everyone in organized labor figured that he was too smart to get into the sort of trouble that would halt his drive for Beck's job. Last week he was in just that sort of trouble...
...Crying Halt. First to cry halt was respected, soft-voiced Mohammed Hatta, himself a Sumatran, who resigned as Vice President in December largely because of his chief's overt flirtation with the Communists...
WASHINGTON, March 5--The Senate adopted overwhelmingly tonight a resolution serving notice on Russia the United States will fight, if necessary, to help halt Communist aggression in the Middle East. The vote...