Word: halt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind 46 to 35 at the half, the varsity's Ed Smith and Bob Bramhall led a second period renaissance which failed because the team was unable to completely halt the Red and Blue scoring...
...even in the recent procedure, the most serious of the charges against Dr. Van Waters was exploded. McDowell claimed that she condoned, or failed to halt immoral activities among the inmates. The evidence, however, proved not only that reformatory officials took all possible measures against homosexuality, but that Framingham's record on this point was outstanding, far better than that in other state institutions under McDowell's department...
...controversial figure. He had called academic freedom "mumbo jumbo," said that "a piece of rubber hose is at times worth ten years of the new [educational] psychology." He had come to Fordham in the days of its great mid '30s football teams, had taken a wartime opportunity to halt football altogether, allowed it to return (in 1946) on only a very chastened scale. Said Gannon: "We want to get [it] off the vaudeville stage and . . . back to the campus...
...Egyptian sea and air raid, which did little damage, looked like a grandstand act to save face at home. On the battlefronts in the Negeb desert, the Christmas war was grinding to a halt, and the Jews once more were the victors. In ten days they had driven the last Egyptian from the territory assigned them by the original U.N. partition plan, and occupied almost all the southern desert up to Egypt's border. Only at Gaza and the Faluja pocket were the Egyptians able to hold...
...everyone finds this production flood a cause for cheering. Three months ago, the Federal Communications Commission called a halt to new transmitter construction (TIME, Oct. 11), partly from the conviction that the industry should get along for a while without new stations and take a breathing spell...