Word: stopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waldorf-Astoria visits at Goldfine's expense? Adams and his wife once "were invited to stop at a meeting of Mr. Goldfine's business associates," stopped overnight again when "I happened to find myself in New York" on a trip between Washington and New Hampshire...
...From four outposts scattered throughout Lebanon, Brown sent them out in pairs of white U.N. jeeps to "see and hear." Later he hopes to add four light planes and two helicopters (offered by the U.S.) for his spotters. When Lebanese officials complained that such small, unarmed patrols could not stop infiltrators, Ecuador's ex-President Galo Plaza Lasso, one of the U.N.'s three supervisory commissioners, explained: "Our way is the moral way. We hope to stop the infiltration by bringing it to international attention...
...Christian Coast. But the deeper question was whether stopping the infiltration would stop the fighting. The rebels in Lebanon already had plenty of arms and plenty of men. They hold whole chunks of Lebanese territory, particularly around the borders. And if the end did not come soon (or evaporate, as Middle East crises sometimes do), the confused and intermittent struggle for Lebanon might become a crucial battle for the whole Middle East. Behind the Lebanese revolt, whether he started it or not, stood Nasser, his propaganda stirred up hatred* and his agents smuggled arms. Back of the Lebanese government, which...
...second was, to back Hammarskjold's line-drawing plan. This way offered a chance to stop Nasser without causing public pain to Nasser's pathologically thin-skinned pride and his prestige as the unstoppable leader of Arab nationalism...
...Brazil, Norway, large enough to seal off Lebanon's borders. Nasser has been happy enough to accept just such a U.N. Emergency Force to seal his Palestine frontier since the Israeli withdrawal of 1957. Such U.N. assistance might stabilize the little country long enough for the rebels to stop fighting, for Chamoun to serve out his lawful term, and for a new President to take office unburdened by the legacy of hate and dedicated to restoring Lebanon to its old place at the middle of the Middle East...