Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most ominous fact in the world today is the growing strength of the Communists. The abandonment of north Vietnam to the Reds and the collapse of the Korean peace talks at Geneva leave us with these alternatives -to halt the Communists where they are, or to surrender first Southeast Asia, then all the rest of the continent and nearby islands to the Reds, giving them such a heavy preponderance of power that they would be ready to move in Europe. The free nations should let Red China know that if she invades-directly as in Korea, or indirectly...
...extreme sorrow" and presented the dead fisherman's widow with a check for 1,000,000 yen ($2,777). But twinges of anti-U.S. sentiment flickered across the islands; delegations of tuna fishermen marched up and down before Japan's Foreign Ministry demanding an immediate halt of U.S. H-bomb tests, and scores of protesting Japanese paraded on foot or in trucks before the U.S. embassy...
...Ambrose Clark, used to counsel new horse owners: "Win as if you were used to it and lose as if you liked it." The U.S. today shows little elation over its abundance, or even over the dawning realization that a disastrous depression is never again likely to halt the march of productivity. At the moment in history when this unique economic achievement was recognized, the U.S. lost its long security against heavy enemy attack; it became the first in the line of paramount nations to live in the knowledge that between any nightfall and morning a fifth of its people...
Mambo writhed its way through halt a dozen tropical and semitropical countries (Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay called it a "national calamity") before it seeped into the U.S. YANKS DIG THAT MAMBO BEAT, Variety's front page announced last June. It ran like quicksilver through the brassier ballrooms, and even rolled into such tony spots as Manhattan s Waldorf-Astoria...
...would not get to the debate until the summer recess ends in October or November-and during this additional period, Mendès reassured the left wing of his majority, Russia would have time to come forward with genuine concessions in Western Europe if it wanted badly enough to halt German rearmament. So Russia too was being offered an alternative. All in all, Mendès' plan was devious, perhaps too devious. Le Figaro, bellwether of French conservative opinion, called it "full of intellectual seduction" but "fragile...