Word: letup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than an hour the assault force stumbled and struggled forward against a solid wall of fire. A Red mortar was knocked out by artillery, but the machine guns and automatic weapons continued without letup. As the marines neared the crest, their line ripped apart; the North Koreans rose from their positions and came forward throwing grenades. The Reds were cut down but not before their grenades had done terrible work among the marines...
...swap: down to Randy's old job stepped a veteran newsman, Edmond D. Coblentz, 67, able publisher of the Call-Bulletin for the last ten years, who wanted to take things easier. For "Cobbie," who likes to sport a cane and carnation, it was the first letup in 50 years of hustling for Hearst as reporter and editor. Cobbie himself announced the change at a San Francisco banquet for 400, including Governor Earl Warren, Louis B. Mayer, Sam Goldwyn and assorted top Hearst brass, and was given a memento of his San Francisco days. The gift: a cable...
...attached. As the farmer's production went up, so did his profits-and his prices. As the quid pro quo for his vote for vitally needed wartime price controls, the Farm Bloc Congressmen got even higher parity prices and a law decreeing that they would be extended without letup for two years after hostilities ended...
...existing municipal power plant. Lindseth helped drum up an opposition which united management, labor and newspapers on C.E.I.'s side. Private ownership won. But Lindseth isn't letting his guard down. Says he: "The cold war against freedom of enterprise here in America is being waged without letup. We can't afford to become complacent...
...there was no letup in the heavy sales of durable goods. Consumers had more money to spend: in January, the Department of Commerce said, personal income reached an annual rate of $212.9 billion, the highest in twelve months...