Word: halted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...events marked the end of twelve months of avowed U.S. policy to halt the spread of Communism. Judged by that aim, which the President had stated so boldly and so confidently in the Truman Doctrine in March 1947, the policy was a failure...
Along the road, by the story the cops told later, one of the gunmen asked for a moment's halt, and everyone got out of the car. Then, the police solemnly reported, somebody jostled somebody else, and the three prisoners started to run. Then, in line with the traditional ley de fuga (shot while trying to escape), they were killed in their tracks...
Deadline in March. Robert Schuman's way of summing up the situation, at the level of the deliberate commonplace, made his government's crisis sound almost trivial. But Frenchmen knew what he meant. And they knew that if Schuman failed in his efforts to halt rising prices, and his coalition government fell, the situation might be beyond the power of any new coalition to solve. That would almost certainly mean an early showdown between the two challenging opposites in France today-Charles de Gaulle's super-party, Rassemblement du Peuple Français, and the Communists...
...been a good week for cynics and sceptics. The cynics have long been sadly shaking their heads, denying the possibility of East-West co-operation, refusing to believe that communist expansion would halt on the far side of Czechoslovakia. Today those heads are wagging wisely up and down in a chorus of I-told-you-sos. Similarly, the skeptics have long been doubting the ability of the United Nations to become more than an international bull session that discusses, investigates, and concludes, but never acts. They have suspected that the United States' commercial interests would undermine its interests in justice...
...Adventists' train came to a dead halt after the first few miles. Communist troops of General Chen Yi questioned them, bragged that the next train would not leave for two years. When Nationalist forces appeared, the Reds withdrew. The Warren party hired pushcarts and continued south. Behind them they heard the gunfire of new attacks, but twice each day they paused for prayer...