Word: halts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...items on the strategic list under heavy pressure from Britain and other allies, the Russians got strategic products and processes that saved them both research, manpower and years of development time. No longer is the U.S. strategic list to be taken seriously, says McClellan. The Battle Act, designed to halt U.S. aid to countries selling to the Soviet bloc, "has become an empty shell...
...atomic intercontinental ballistic missile. If the result of continued nuclear tests will be a biologically deformed species, the defense is of doubtful value. Until scientists are certain that this will not be the result, all nations should realize that their debt to the future demands a halt...
...maintain life means that the question of when to stop fighting will arise to plague him every time he undertakes the care of an incurable cancer patient ... Where can anyone, no matter how wise, draw the line?" There is always the chance that "spontaneous remission," a rare inexplicable halt to tumor growth, may restore the cancer patient to health. Moreover, says Cameron, the possibility always exists of a timely cure for the patient's case of cancer. "The humane course is to hold on to such a hope, slender as it is, and help the patient to live...
...next moment as youthfully impulsive as the Harrow schoolboy he once was. He spent one typical morning gravely conferring on affairs of state in his palace office, then suddenly ordered his private de Havilland plane made ready, zipped out to the airport in his Lincoln, screeched to a halt, jumped out and asked a saluting R.A.F. officer. "O.K. if I go to Jerusalem...
...warning, the government proposed a sharp 20% tax on the advertising revenues of Canadian editions of foreign, i.e., U.S., magazines.* In his budget speech announcing the levy. Finance Minister Walter Harris made it clear that the tax was not intended to produce revenue, but was designed to cripple or halt the U.S.-owned publications, and thus force mere Canadians to advertise in and read Canadian magazines...