Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken as settled that the U.S. will go to war in an effort to stop any nation from dominating the world. In fact, twice in this century the U.S. has gone to war when it looked as if rival nations had become threats...
Nevertheless the U.S. Congress and the U.S. people had nearly always come, however reluctantly, to the point where they backed broad, essential foreign policy when both the need and the workability of a given program was clear. The need for U.S. action to stop Russia was plain enough; this summer's work at Paris would give the Congress and the people an idea of whether it was workable. To whatever Paris produced, the U.S. would apply certain tests. Among them...
Last week, with $11,000 to show for two months' work, the two leading ladies of tennis ended their first U.S. tour at Dayton. The score in matches: Betz 16, Cooke 12 (six were called because of darkness). Next stop: England, where they are guaranteed $2,000 a week apiece...
...Superstition," containing a 14-foot hand made of chicken wire, plaster and canvas. In a hole in the wall, an owl, a bat and a raven played whist. In another room, artificial rain fell steadily and one dry corner was reserved for a billiard table where passersby could stop and play...
Waterloo is a sleepy Oklahoma town, a whistle stop on the Santa Fe. Its people are mostly dirt farmers who raise wheat on the red, rolling land, or "sundown farmers" who work in the oilfields nearby. Waterloo's white frame schoolhouse can be seen from the homes of almost every one of the eight families who send their kids to school there...