Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, 37 months and two days after the Russian-trained North Koreans attacked across the 38th parallel, the Korean war-a devastating struggle, laced from the start with glory, agony, triumph, frustration-came to a halt, perhaps temporary, perhaps permanent. The war had cost the U.S. more than 140,000 casualties (some 25,000 dead, 102,000 wounded, 13,000 missing and captured), $22 billion. The problem of ending it had roweled the best brains of two U.S. Administrations, and had helped to win a national election for one, to lose it for the other...
...chest, who was told: "Take a stretcher; you'll die if you walk down." "Yeah," he replied, "send four guys back to carry me and they'll all get clobbered. I'll make it." And he did. Those were the cool heroes, sacrificing themselves, not to "halt aggression" or "fight Communism," but out of elemental loyalty to the outfit, and to the other men around them...
...solved the problem of forced repatriation so far as North Koreans were concerned. He certainly proved that they did not want to go back. But he also struck a heavy blow at U.N. hopes for an end to the war. The talks at Panmunjom came to a halt...
...Leipzig, 1,400 zinc and steel workers marched on strike, tore hats and guns away from traffic policemen who tried to halt them, grabbed Leipzig Mayor Uhlich and forced him to march at the head, his chest covered with a sign saying: "Down with the Government!" Where one German fell dead from a Vopo's bullet, the revolters heaped flowers and set up a sign: "Here a German was shot to death by a German...
...halt the unpopular farm collectivization program at its present level (about 10% of East German farmland...