Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foreign Policy. To the surprise of the doom criers who predicted Communist advances on every front, the Eisenhower Administration has won incalculable prestige for the U.S.-and domestic support from all political creeds-by sending troops to stop trouble in Lebanon and sending ships and planes in answer to Chinese Communist threats in the Far East...
...highhandedness, the congress exploded into an angry uproar. With Cannon looking on from the visitors' gallery, Communist Foulkes defiantly proclaimed that it was nobody else's business whom the E.T.U. accredited. "I don't like Walter Padley," shouted Foulkes, "but I don't try to stop his union sending him here...
...record seemed certain. But on the return trip, when Thompson got up to 280 m.p.h., three connecting rods on the front engine suddenly snapped under the strain, punched a hole in the engine block. Thompson was able to wrestle his wrecked car to a safe stop...
...year-old mother of ten found her third husband drinking at a wedding reception, after he had nearly died of hepatic failure. When she fearfully cautioned him to stop, he rebuffed her. Within minutes she lost all sensation throughout the right side of her body...
...rise. Washington reported that from May to July, manufacturers' sales rose $1.1 billion, to $26.3 billion. New orders to manufacturers also climbed $1.3 billion to $26.3 billion. Meantime, the rate of inventory liquidation slowed considerably, a sign that the day is near when manufacturers and retailers will stop living off the shelf, start replenishing stocks with fresh orders. The book value of manufacturers' inventories dipped $400 million in July, far less than the $700 million drop in June. The figure was down to $49.8 billion...