Word: stopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President headed west from Washington on his 5,284-mile congressional-election tour in such a cheerful, eupeptic and thoroughly nonpolitical mood that one reporter called it a "Give 'Em Hello Campaign." His first stop: the National Corn Picking Contest on the 400-acre Lumir Dostal Farm, ten miles northeast of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. There he stood up before a sea of 85,000 or more farmers, a tremendous forum for a campaign opener, got off to a sharp start when he proclaimed that realized net farm income was up 20% over last year and per-capita farm income...
...Seizures of newspapers in Algeria must stop unless Salan's administrators were prepared to bring legal charges against the editors involved...
...villages) have heeded neither the Shah's example nor his exhortations to sell some of their land to the peasants. In fact, at one point a few years ago, the landlords were so embarrassed by the Shah's generosity that they even persuaded the government to stop the Shah's own sales to sharecroppers...
...share of their tenants' crops, landlords have been accustomed to take "gifts" from their peasants of "cattle, lambs, chickens, eggs, marriage dues, fines for quarreling, and presents taken on the eve of festivals." Effective at once, the government of Iran ordered provincial governors and police to put a stop to all such practices...
...Although our passing has been adequate, our ground offense has been good enough to stop us from going to the air too often," Lamar said...