Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herald Tribune pointed out: "It is time for Republicans to stop and ask themselves seriously just what the party proposes to do with its new power. ... It has no mandate to return to a now irrecoverable past of blind isolationism, narrow prejudice, obedience to this or that hidden pressure or influence, the whole McKellar brand of demagoguery. ... It is the party leadership which is now meeting the first tests of public opinion...
...Prime Minister was careful to state that this is no "treaty" or "contractual obligation." Either nation can stop the collaboration at any time. It is only a "working arrangement," a bilateral declaration of principles intended to clear the air of wild rumors about U.S.-Canadian military intentions in the Arctic. The gist of the agreement is that the two countries will exchange military observers and armed-service personnel; they will make their military, naval and air facilities available to each other; they will try to standardize weapons...
...slash would help push reluctant millions of people abroad "into the arms of Communism," and Rep. Engel (R-Mich), chairman of the Army appropriations subcommittee, who declared that if General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz cannot run the army and Navy efficiently on less money they "ought to stop aside and give someone else a chance...
...Stop the 'Hail. G.E. does not plan to tinker with the whole U.S. atmosphere, but it has its eye on hailstorms, which do enormous damage to crops in certain parts of the country. Hail is formed when raindrops are sucked into rising currents in a thundercloud. They freeze high in the air, collide with supercooled water droplets, and grow into crop-slashing hailstones. Dr. Irving Langmuir proposes to charge the thunder-threatening air with silver iodide particles. Sucked up into the cloud, they will turn the supercooled droplets into snow before they can build up hailstones...
...tenor doctor, sings some of the compositions; Miss de Carlo dances several more. There is also an energetic duel with whips. Miss Arden and ship's Captain Brian Donlevy look on as if they could think of far better things to do and say the minute the cameras stop. It is all very foolish and, thanks to a heavy undertone of parody, bearably amusing...