Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week of confusion and contradiction, about a matter of such primary importance, put the Eisenhower Administration in its worst light to date. Only the President could halt the hand-wringing with an authoritative summary of the U.S.-Russian atomic position. He tried to prevent a repetition of it by ordering all Administration officials to clear all future statements on the subject with Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss, who knows what he is talking about and who bears his awful responsibility without jittering...
...Columbia is a strong defensive club--third in the Ivy group--and may be able to halt the Crimson. The Lions have a strong line which includes men like Gene Wodeshick, John Casella, and Jerry Hampton, who played 55 minutes a game even under the two-platoon system. Fullback Keith Krebs is a converted line-backer, and end Bonnano is a former defensive guard...
...this halt meant only that for a year's time Harvard would be deprived of a rewarding experience, it would be bad enough. But the effect on German schools, which had almost completed the processing of candidates, is incalcuable. The Council can expect little more than leery cooperation when the plan is revived next year...
...were felt. To many, the drift toward civil war seemed fatefully sure. But there is no dispute as to the purpose inspiring the many groups who reached for a new hope and a new party which they called Republican. That purpose, everywhere plainly defined and passionately proclaimed, was to halt the extension of the institution of slavery...
...lucky. The Vopos fined or arrested many. Some were accused of being American agents, a crime punishable by imprisonment or death, and to others the courts began meting out prison sentences as drastic as five years. On top of threat and punishment, the Reds tried by public ridicule to halt the sad parade of their hungry subjects. In Ruppin they put up posters showing a local man and his wife beside a well-stacked table. "The needy collect Ami food parcels," the signs read. "An example-Reinhard Dehnicke is a kulak with 44 hectares of land. He owns one tractor...