Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congress' immediate reaction to Harry Truman's seizure of the steel mills was a volley of polysyllabic denunciation: "usurpation . . . socialization . . . intemperate . . . dangerous implications . . ." New Hampshire's Republican Styles Bridges demanded a Judiciary Committee inquiry. South Carolina's Democrat Burnet Maybank called a halt to consideration of the controls program, due to expire June 30. Even the most ardent friends of labor warned that Harry Truman was wielding a two-edged sword-one that in the hands of another President might be turned against labor itself...
...meaner stretches of Georgia. Actually the region doesn't matter. By now, Caldwell's characters are not so much recognizable people as mass-produced toys which squeak set speeches and make appropriate gestures when wound up. In Episode in Palmetto (1950) he blessedly called a halt to the "cyclorama of Southern life" that got its start with Tobacco Road. But the halt was only temporary...
...black Mercedes-Benz convertible, long and lethal-looking, pulled to a screeching halt before the Lebanese presidential palace in Beirut. A Lebanon honor guard snapped to attention and a military band blared forth the Syrian national anthem. Security men swarmed about the car. Then, from behind the bulletproof glass of the car door stepped a dapper little man with the look of a morose mouse...
...long-range plans undertaken, and state finances based on the current status of these lands under state control. The states have been in possession of these lands for twenty years and taking them away from the states would present an enormous practical problem. An entire industry would have to halt while the government set up its traditionally complex administration of control. Possibly there are gains that would make this temporary chaos worth while, but the turmoil that the change from state to federal ownership would create cannot be ignored as you editorial...
Current war needs also lead to favoring state control. Increased oil production requires a steady development of unknown resources under the tidelands. Such development would necessarily have to halt while oil men waited to see how federal control would work in practice. In such a speculative industry as oil, no one would drill a well in the face of the uncertainty of federal control...