Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marshal Tito's relations with royalty, never exactly chummy, came to a blunt and seemingly final halt in 1945, when he told young King Peter, in effect, to stay the blazes out of Yugoslavia or he would chop his royal head off. But last week the marshal slipped into his blue and scarlet commander in chief's uniform, stepped into a cocoon of policemen, Scotland Yard agents and Yugoslav bodyguards, and took himself off to Buckingham Palace for lunch with King Peter's distant cousin, Her Majesty Elizabeth...
...really a land of murder and muddle. And there is little likelihood that either murder or muddle will halt soon. The sullen masses of evicted blacks in the overrun reserves; the white farmers and their wives besieged in their farmhouses with revolvers next to the dinner plates; the bearded commandos stumbling through forests after the elusive Mau Mau; the brittle Mayfair-in-suburbia life of spuriously gay Nairobi ; the purple-faced ex-colonels in the very, very particular Rift Valley Club- none of them seeming to know what to do. Not even the Mau Mau themselves seem to know what...
...Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Haydn's Symphony No. 73, and the William Tell overture. But they were in for a rude shock. The young maestrina had her own ideas about tempo-generally she likes it faster than the London Philharmonic does-and she rapped them to a halt time & again to tell them...
Having next revised his name (dropping "Abbot" as gloomy and substituting his mother's name McNeill), he went to work on his character. He decided to be a West Point-trained officer & gentleman, and though his difficulties with chemistry brought his military career to a sudden halt, he kept what he regarded as his military manners to the end. Moreover, he held that the rudeness of Englishmen (amongst whom he spent most of his life) was in no way a result of his rudeness to them but simply a consequence of their not having had the advantage...
...members of the general staff, were shot. But the trials were only a fraction of the picture. The GPU reached out into every small town and village, arresting minor party members, doctors, engineers, professional men & women, beating them into confessions of sabotage and treachery. In 1938 Stalin called a halt, ordered a purge of the purgers. Henry Yagoda. GPU boss, was tried and shot and so were most of his operatives...