Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ACTION, TO BROADCAST IN HIS VOICE A WARNING AGAINST REPRISALS. THE INFLUENTIAL U.S. PRESS MUST URGE SIMILAR ACTIONS BY EISENHOWER. THE HUNGARIAN STUDENTS, WORKERS AND WRITERS HAVE GIVEN THE WORLD A LESSON IN SIMPLE COURAGE THAT SHAMES ALL INACTION. WE HAILED THEIR FIRST TRIUMPH ; WE MUST ACT TO HALT THE SHEDDING OF THEIR BLOOD...
...Menace. But any cease-fire depended utterly on the Anglo-French, and they were unwilling to halt action until they had achieved their goal of grabbing the Canal Zone from Egypt. They might be willing to accept a U.N. police force in the Canal Zone if everyone else agreed, but their conditions were in fact a refusal...
...Take a Picture for Me." Meantime correspondents were building up pressure at the Nickelsdorf frontier barrier. First to get through was the Daily Express' Sydney Smith. When the guards lifted the barrier for another purpose, Smith gunned his poised car, shot past them and, despite their shouts to halt, lit out for Budapest. Next day other newsmen persuaded the guards to let them through in cars and as hitchhikers on Hungarian army trucks. In Budapest they set up shop in the Duna Hotel, a dingy fleabag on the Danube. There they got a shaky warning from the New York...
Earlier in the day, Britain and France had set a 12-hour deadline for a halt in the fighting, a deadline which passed at 11:30 (EST) last night. They said they would then send troops to protect the canal and their shipping...
...Presidential Special" purred into Ohio, independent-minded Governor Frank J. Lausche, who hasn't done any all-out campaigning for any other Democrat in years, heaved himself aboard. Lausche, running unnerved, if not scared, for the Senate against Republican Incumbent George Bender, introduced Stevenson at each halt with gushing praise: "a great American," "a fearless man." Said a fellow Ohio Democrat of this unusual display of affection: "Frank needs help...