Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...December as the most lenient they could hope for, crossed their fingers last week and hoped that the nation's preoccupation with defense might take off the heat. Labor would cheerfully accept public reports on all pension and welfare funds (including employer-managed funds), would like legislation to stop right there if public opinion would stand for it. Still to come: the final report and recommendations of Arkansan John McClellan's Senate investigating subcommittee, which may well be tougher than Ike's proposals, may well step up the heat...
...noting with rueful admiration that Turkey's 470,000-man army constitutes the biggest force contributed to NATO by any nation: "With most of our allies, the problem is to get them to build up to minimum strength. With the Turks, the problem is to get them to stop somewhere...
...When Jim Hagerty was press secretary to Tom Dewey a few years later, an officious Dewey aide ordered a train to move out while eight reporters were still rushing to clamber aboard. Hagerty dashed up ahead of the train, planted his foot on the track, forcing the engineer to stop. "They yelled like hell," recalls Hagerty. "But I knew...
...wrong way. He snarled at a slow-moving ball boy, gulped a handful of salt tablets, and finally took out his explosive anger on Hoad. His blistering serves kicked too high and hard to be handled. He got his racket up to almost all of Lew's astonishing stop volleys, and somehow he kept up the incredible pressure until he won the wearing marathon...
...halt nuclear tests in a letter to President Eisenhower and United Nations officials. Lawrence Scott, leader of the Nevada protest, said the committee is working on plans to send a delegation to the Soviet Union. "We desire to bring to the Russian people the same moral demand to stop preparation for nuclear war," he said...