Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called veterans of the Pacific war, are watching with keen interest the efforts of Congress to call an immediate halt to the drafting of men, and to prevent any further movement of troops to the Pacific area for the dirty job of policing Japan. Frankly, we don't like it. We can see easily the side of the story presented by the "Stateside" soldiers. We can understand why men and their families wish the draft to be halted. We can see it because we have been through it. But what about...
After the Army transport had taxied to a halt on Atsugi airfield one day last week, the first man to climb down was a tall, loose-jointed officer with the three stars of a lieutenant general gleaming on his shirt collar. Said the General, grinning...
City bus lines, which had been forced to use the skip-stop system, a wartime innovation apparently designed to facilitate passing up passengers, would this week be allowed to halt under virtually every street light if the driver was in the mood...
Bitter Tea. When the Japs at last decided to get on with it, MacArthur rubbed the salt of Bataan into their wounds, insisting they use the word as their planes' radio call. During the halfway halt at Ie Shima, one of the Jap crewmen appeared with a bouquet for "peace and friendship." Not an arm was bent in salute. Gaping G.I.s showed more interest in the booted, fur-hatted Jap pilots than in the stubby little men walking over to the Army Transport Command plane (a C-54 Skymaster) assigned to carry them to Manila...
After five days Chairman Connally called a halt on the hearings, called for a vote. Result: 21 to 1 for approval (California's Hiram Johnson was the lone dissenter; Minnesota's Henrik Shipstead did not vote...