Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marry, successively, Actress Danielle Darrieux, sometimes called "the most beautiful woman in the world," and Doris Duke Cromwell, "the richest woman in the world." His job also led him to seeming affluence far beyond his official salary of $600 a month. Last week it came to a halt: Rubi got fired...
...cruel deception to the American people because they wouldn't begin to accomplish their proclaimed objective of 'trade, not aid.' " A lower protective tariff, said the association, which includes Du Pont, Dow Chemical Co. and General Aniline & Film Corp., would cut back production of essential chemicals, halt expansion plans and force the industry to curtail its $204 million-a-year research program. The industry is itself the product of protective tariffs, said the report; it got its start when chemical imports from Germany were cut off in World War I, and was built up by a postwar...
...normally busy Lincoln and Civil War branches of the publishing industry almost ground to a halt, but two fine items more than saved the day for the specialists. One was nothing less than The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln in eight bulging volumes, which brought to a close a 29-year job of loving scholarship by the Abraham Lincoln Association. The other was A Stillness at Appomattox, the last of three lively volumes detailing the history of the Army of the Potomac. It was the job of a journalist, Bruce Catton, but no scholar had done it nearly so well...
...Western alliance, progress had been slowly freezing to a halt. The Bermuda sun did not bring a thaw (see INTERNATIONAL). Rather, the fact that the Big Three met and failed to make progress on specific issues emphasized the lack of forward motion. President Eisenhower, foreseeing this, had not wanted the Bermuda meeting. When it bogged down, he saved the situation-and went on to achieve far more than had been expected from the Bermuda Conference. Before and during the Bermuda talks, debate on the business of international security had been conducted in confused terms and at a languid tempo which...
This week Dictator Franco's sindicatos, state-appointed bosses of the state-run "trade unions," were converging on Bilbao to halt the spreading unrest. "These poor fellows are not to blame," said one of the bosses. "There are some very delicate angles. The French say cherchez la femme. Here in Spain we might say cherchez...