Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elizabeth, clutching tight at her notebook, began a long, slow walk down the two blocks fronting the school. She turned once to try the line again-and again the rifles came up. A militia major shielded her from the crowd, escorted her to a bus-stop bench, left her. "Go home, you burr head," rasped an adult voice. Elizabeth sat dazed as the crowd moved in. Then Mrs. Grace Lorch, wife of a Little Rock schoolteacher, sat down on the bench and slipped her arm around the child's shoulders. "This is just a little girl," she cried...
...Appraisal. Within the hour, word began to percolate around Washington that the U.S. was hardening fast upon a new appraisal of the Syrian situation: some sort of a forceful confrontation of world Communism in the Middle East would soon be necessary to stop Syria from slipping into satellite status and from subverting neighboring Jordan and Lebanon...
...then touched down and taxied up to a pack of reporters and cameramen on hand to meet the first Russia-to-U.S. civilian flight in 20 years.* There was an intense, high-pitched roar from the twin jets as the sweptwing, silver-and-blue plane rolled to a stop...
...Lake Shasta was cool and quiet, and the C. V. Cadwalla-ders, camped out there, had nothing more on their minds than a restful lunch. Then came a rising sound of motor traffic, a cloud of dust, the rasp of gravel on rubber as four automobiles slid to a stop near by. From the lead car bounded a bulky, shirtsleeved figure who plunged through the manzanita bush like a startled bull moose, thrust a hand at Mr. Cadwallader, announced simply: "I'm Senator Knowland." After five minutes of picture taking and small talk, William Fife Knowland, his wife...
...could count Dave Beck as being tough, but he's an angel alongside of Hoffa. Hoffa is just plain ruthless. Beck rants and snorts. As a last resort, he would use group physical violence, but he wouldn't have anyone bumped off. Hoffa wouldn't stop at anything...