Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discussing the establishment of machinery to survey our entire loyalty-security policy in a comprehensive way which will have more regard for justice, liberty and security than previous policies have shown. There are now grounds for hope that the hounding of dissidence, innocent of treason, will come to a halt...
...shifting unfavorably for Britain: imports are costing too much, exports not earning enough. Result: the sterling area's gold and dollar reserves, which rose by $501 million in the first half of 1954, fell by $258 million in the second half. Butler's recent efforts to halt the drain (TIME, March 7) appeared to be working. "But we cannot be satisfied yet," he said. "It is only by looking forward and outward, by expansion, by liberating the human spirit to give and do of its best, that our island people can survive." Laborites jeered; taken slightly aback, Butler...
...nearly eight months, through the fall of one French government and the emergence of another, French-Tunisian negotiations have ground on in Paris, sometimes almost grinding to a halt. In the climactic stages. Premier Faure himself headed up the French negotiators. The nominal head of the Tunisian delegation was portly Premier Tahar Ben Amar, a wealthy pro-French landlord. But the real Tunisian string-puller, behind the scenes, was handsome, saturnine Habib Bourguiba, exiled leader of Tuisia's nationalist Neo-Destour Party and an authentic political genius...
...Roman Catholics marches 13 blocks, from Congress Square to the spacious Plaza de Mayo, but this year the police gave grudging permission to proceed only as far as the Church of Our Lady of Monserrat, five blocks from the Plaza. Abreast of the church, the marchers shuffled to a halt. But some of the younger men, alert as scouts advancing into enemy territory, pushed on to see what the cops would do. They did nothing...
Because of its limited duties, OTC is no panacea for trade problems, but it should be approved, if only to secure the faith of our thirty-three allies. If Congress does not pass the plan, ensuing distrust might lead to new and higher tariff barriers and ultimately halt the expansion of world trade. By enacting OTC and its sister proposal, the Reciprocal Trade Act, Congress could relieve the hardening of Western arteries of trade...