Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lightening the load" in Indo-China. He was earnest about ratification of the European Defense Community Treaty, but hinted that defeat on this point would not cause him to dissolve parliament. He advocated a cut in rearmament together with a planned investment program calculated to stimulate production and halt unemployment. He promised continued close relations with the U.S., but the whole tenor of his speech was that France could not hope to have a real voice in international affairs, unless it obtained economic independence from America...
...which is in fact conservative, Mendès-France has advocated ending the war in Indo-China by negotiation. As a lawyer, he has defended the Tunisian nationalists and has attacked French misrule in North Africa. He has been openly distrustful of Germany. He has advocated limited disarmament to halt France's slide into bank ruptcy. Are such views practical politics? In a brilliant speech, Mendès-France almost proved they were...
...invasion of China would consume hordes of men and millions of dollars in an operation which . . . would be fruitless. In the battle's midst, the public would sicken of the drain and the campaign would grind to a farcical halt. . . . Using Chiang would be employing a discredited army and a has-been who is considered reactionary and dictatorial throughout the Far East. It would . . . burden this county with the worst sort of albatross...
...They are not specifics," says Dr. Jo, "but they cure secondary infections and halt the spread of the disease. Nowadays, if the disease is caught in its early stages, the patient can be treated here for two or three years, and then has a good chance of being discharged without any disfiguring signs. After that, he can be treated by his own doctor." For the future, Dr. Jo has still more hope: "Within our lifetime we shall have a cure...
Loudspeakers blared the news up & down the length of Long Island's Bridgehampton road-race course last week, calling a halt to the trial spins of other drivers. They wheeled slowly back to the pits, then gathered in gloomy little knots to discuss the accident. The Bridgehampton town board held a hurried meeting to decide whether or not to run the next day's races...