Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exploded the theory that communism, if it came to power, could bring the world unity and peace. For that, at least, loudmouthed Dictator Tito deserved the West's gratitude. As one American observer in Europe put it last week: "The time is surely come when the West should stop thinking of communism as a block which might splinter but can never crack...
Civilian Control. The simple, 700-word occupation statute should have given the Germans a number of things to be grateful for. Along with the statute, the Western allies confirmed a previous agreement to stop most of the dismantling of German industrial plants, and to admit the West German state as a full-fledged partner in the Marshall Plan organization. Once the state comes into being, Military Government will end. Some occupation forces, however, will remain. The allies will retain certain key powers of control, to be vested in three civilian high commissioners. They will completely control "disarmament. . . demilitarization . . . related fields...
...test, spirochetes from syphilitic rabbits are mixed with human blood. When the antibodies are present in the blood, the energetic spirochetes stop moving and apparently die, indicating that the patient has syphilis. Therefore, Dr. Nelson called his substances "Treponemal immobilizing antibodies...
...caught him in a mistake in solitaire. "Do you accuse me of cheating?" he thundered. "Well, then . . . I'll begin again." On that occasion, he had been thinking of what he would say to the houseful of bankers who were there that night to discuss how they could stop the market panic...
Withdrawal of support did not mean that the studios would stop lobbying for their own pictures. And, as Hersholt quickly pointed out, an Oscar was not just an artistic laurel but a box-office lure as well. At week's end, apparently reconciled to the latest twist of the tightened Hollywood economy, the academy's board of governors decided that the money would have to be scraped up somewhere else, but the Oscars would carry...