Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of these men graft to live, and there is no possible way to stop this sort of graft until all Government employees, military and civilian, receive a living wage. But raising of Government salaries will increase the inflation, inflation will raise the cost of living, the rising cost of living will quickly absorb the raises in salaries, graft will start again-nobody will be better off. How can China break this vicious circle...
...eight-coach train clanked to a stop at a crossing on Havana's outskirts. In the darkness thousands were waiting; they had been waiting since early afternoon. Spotlights from Army jeeps and armored cars stabbed at the dark coach windows. In the glare 800 defiant revolutionaries waved at the crowd and shouted: "Death to Trujillo." Turned back by a Cuban gunboat, the men who had sailed from Cuba to overthrow Dominican Dictator Trujillo were returning under guard, and to Havana they were heroes...
...criminal whose personality has been twisted too long by physical deformity cannot be helped by surgery, says Dr. Pick: "The reform school is the place to begin. We could hope then to stop a criminal career right at the start...
...want war now, and was trading vituperation for time. What the seizure of the three Americans at Trieste proved was that Russian aggression had made several frontier situations in Europe so hair-trigger that a hotheaded act on either side could cause shooting which might be very hard to stop again...
...Russia 90 percent of the way. But Russia does not meet us even 10 percent of the way. . . . The entire problem of the relations between Russia and America, or between dictatorship and the democracies, has gone beyond the field of diplomacy. . . . This is the political war and it cannot stop until Russia or democracy wins." Yet Fischer does "not believe Stalin wants a world war" now, or is planning a "violent world revolution." Stalin's strategy is to fasten his dictatorship on the countries Russia now dominates, to expand wherever possible by an incessant ideological war of nerves, against...