Word: halts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungarian political leaders and their families, including Julia Rajk, whose husband Laszlo Rajk had been executed as a Titoist in 1949. They all arrived at the back door of the Yugoslav embassy just in time. As Embassy Secretary Milovnov let them in,a Russian armored car screeched to a halt, and out popped a soldier who sprayed the doorway with his Tommy gun. Nagy & Co. got inside the door safely, but Milovnov crumpled to the ground, dead...
...Senators will assert that the Senate's rules expired at adjournment last summer, and that the body is now governed by ordinary parliamentary procedure. They will seek to enact a new set of rules with more effective limitations on debate than the present requirement of 64 Senate votes to halt filibusters. If these Northern Senators can secure a majority to support their argument against the continuity of Senate rules, they can pass whatever new rules they wish without fear of filibuster on their own move...
From a dozen other sources, as the day went by, came confirmation of the astonishing news that Hungary, far from lying down under martial law, was alive and kicking its Soviet bosses. The mighty Red army had been unable to halt the paralyzing general strike of the incredible Hungarians, who abandoned street fighting after perhaps 25,000 Hungarians lost their lives, but found other ways to resist...
...strike. "Let us unite to stop fascism," they cried, meaning by fascism the resistance of all Hungarians to the Russian tanks. Last week the walkout came. It was a colossal and embarrassing flop. In the Paris area not a single bus, subway or trolley ground to a halt. Out of 600,000 metal and auto workers in the notorious "Red Belt" around Paris, only 3,000 obeyed the C.G.T. summons, and even they returned to work after half an hour. At the Simca factory in Nanterre the only 600 workers to leave their machines were those giving blood for wounded...
Facts Forum, the most expensive personal propaganda mill in the U.S., came to a halt last week. Launched five years ago by Dallas' Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, 67, whose oil, natural-gas and farmland interests give him an income of $200,000 a day, Facts Forum billed itself as a "nonpartisan, nonpolitical educational organization." But in its monthly Facts Forum News (reported circ. 100,000), a clutter of radio and TV shows, e.g., Reporters' Roundup, Topic of the Week, and widely distributed "public-opinion" polls, Hunt's nonprofit-and tax-free-foundation promoted a far-right, McCarthyist line...