Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stassen bandwagon had not been brought to a bumping stop, but it had at least been slowed down. Taft's showing was enough to keep him from being knocked out of the running entirely, but it was not good enough to shoot him into the lead. And the best that Tom Dewey could hope to do in Oregon was to recover some of the popular support he had lost after Wisconsin and Nebraska. Actually the primaries had decided nothing: Dewey was still the probable leader on the first ballot, followed by Stassen and Taft...
Delegates disagreed with Gromyko; they had been exhausting a series of Soviet proposals since A.E.C.'s inception. All Russian proposals had had two main ingredients : 1) the U.S. would have to stop making bombs and get rid of its stockpile at once; and 2) the control (or even the inspection) of Soviet atomic plants by a true international agency would be an interference with Soviet "sovereignty." The Russians wanted no one to have any secrets-except the Russians. Chided the majority-backed resolution, in the understatement of the year: "Secrecy in the field of atomic energy is not compatible...
...will happen; he waves his stick at a 14-or 15-year-old prostitute who has strayed from her normal beat; or he wakes a P.W. just returned from Russia who is sleeping in a doorway-merely to check his papers. But after a while you will see him stop by a tree on a corner. He will remove a score of little slips of paper pinned there. They read: "Want bread, offer German cigarettes . . ." "Will sell linen tablecloth and curtains for money or food . .." ". . . Discharged P.W. wants pair of pants; gives money or potatoes." This is illegal barter...
Moody, young (46) General Hu Tsung-nan was fond of taking lonely walks. Suddenly he would stop, beat his chest in Tarzan fashion, and howl to the heavens. Ex plained Hu : "Thus do I free myself of internal and external pressures." Friends urged him to take a wife. General Hu, short, sturdy watchdog of China's north west, shook his head. "I have a job to do," he said...
...Ordered the theater-owning companies to stop "pooling" the receipts of two or more normally competitive theaters...