Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coleman considers that he has a far more serious mission to fulfill. Mississippi has the most lopsided economy in the South: 42% of its work force is on farms. Striving to eliminate illiteracy and grinding poverty, and determined to raise the lowest per-capita income in the nation and halt an exodus of 40.000 citizens each year, the state has tried to balance agriculture with new industry ever since the first term of Governor Hugh White...
...Menon's flow of words but a single nyet uttered by Russia's taciturn Arkady Sobolev called a halt to the U.N.'s efforts to mediate in Kashmir. By casting the Soviet Union's 79th *veto in the Security Council, Sobolev effectively killed a resolution, jointly sponsored by the U.S., Cuba. Britain and Australia, to send Council President Gunnar Jarring of Sweden to Kashmir as a step "toward the settlement of the dispute." The resolution did not mention plebiscite, but noted in passing that former U.N. resolutions calling for demilitarization and a plebiscite in Kashmir...
...final speaker of the evening, Victor K. Weisskopf, professor of Physics at M.I.T., said that the nations of the world should strike at the heart of the "fallout problem" by attempting to halt nuclear tests on a world-wide basis...
...week's end, IRS music lovers called a halt. The cry was loud and clear: Nix on the tunes, sad or funny/ Just mail the returns-and don't forget the money...
...with his own experience selling beer mugs and Harvard pennants to Yardlings, and having access to the entry captains used in the successful PBH blood drive, the Council's minister of hope failed miserably in his task. In some areas of the College, the drive ground to a complete halt, less than half of the potential donors being contacted...