Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dozens of Congressmen and Senators continued to cry angrily for a more stringent embargo against Russia; some for a complete halt of all shipments to the U.S.S.R. Thousands of U.S. citizens, who bitterly recalled pre-Pearl Harbor scrap shipments to Japan, agreed wholeheartedly...
What is called the new democracy is making its appearance today - it has come to Czechoslovakia - but it is a state of things which in ancient days we used to call slavery. If a halt is not called, then the end of civilization as we know it and cherish it is inevitable...
...cogent case which both of these groups reject shows that the course upon which we are asked to embark errs gravely. Now is the time to exploit our "crisis" consciousness. President Truman has used the bankruptcy of his Doctrine's failure to redouble his demands--rather than to halt in his tracks and take stock. With public opinion recognizing the crossroads nature of the moment a reorientation of United States policy can and should evolve...
Stripper Georgia Sothern, who had been warned by the cops to slow down (TIME, March 8), ground to a halt at Manhattan's Club Samoa. Police who came back to catch her act revoked her café working permit. Georgia amplified her own interpretation of her art: "[The cops] claimed I did grinds-grinds is when a girl stands still and rolls her hips all around. I didn't do grinds. . . . What I do is a takeoff on the old-style bumps. ... A burlesque on burlesque, see? Strictly for the laughs and no panting...
...reference to the adverse turn in MacArthur's campaign, but he said that the general VAM offensive will emphasize his "undemocratic methods in Japan after the war, his failure to use or understand humanitarian principles during the war, and his use of violence in the peacetime year 1932 to halt the veteran's march on Washington...