Word: stopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, such White House aides as Deputy Presidential Assistant Wilton B. Persons and Presidential Counsel Gerald Morgan were fighting hard to save Adams. But the pressures were too great; e.g., it took all of Alcorn's powers of persuasion to stop Pennsylvania's Richard Simpson, chairman of the House Republican Campaign Committee, from publicly demanding Adams' ouster. When Meade Alcorn returned from Chicago on Aug. 28 with his report to the President, Adams...
NORFOLK (pop. 314,600). After failing to stop a federal order to integrate 17 Negro pupils, the school board postponed the opening of the fall term to Sept. 29. hoped to get satisfaction in circuit court. If it fails again, the board will admit the Negroes, and Governor Almond, invoking his massive-resistance laws, will shut down Norfolk's six Negro and white senior and junior high schools. As in Charlottesville, segregationist parents busily devised plans to provide classrooms in private homes and churches. But even before the plans were well under way, the "Norfolk Committee for Public Schools...
...tower cleared 72 Bravo for takeoff, and Goldwater lifted the Beech up, over the emerald quiltwork of irrigation land, over the purple Rincon peaks, over the state whose every wrinkle he knows and loves, heading southeast for the first stop of the day in his campaign to defend his U.S. Senate seat against Democratic Governor Ernest McFarland...
...International Seminar proved quite popular. During the height of the Middle East crisis the Egyptian delegate frequently raised the temperatures of forums on Arab unity. Indian and French delegates "disinflated their national egos" at one forum, and a British delegate asserted that "our shrinking pains will not stop until government policy stops parading Britain as a major power...
...time has come to stop talking about the $12,000 or the $15,000 or the $20,000 house. We need to talk about the kind of quality housing which people in different income brackets can afford, or are willing to make sacrifices for because they promise so much in happy living." In these words, Federal Housing Administrator Norman Mason summed up a new job for the U.S. homebuilding industry-the building of better as well as more houses...