Word: halt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Intelligence had captured a German officer dressed in a U.S. uniform. He confessed that he was one of a band of 60 Nazis heading for Versailles to assassinate Ike. Kay apprehensively recounts: "The normal guard was doubled, trebled, quadrupled. The sound of a car exhaust was enough to halt work in every office, to start a flurry of telephone calls to our office to inquire if the Boss were all right." Ike was not allowed to stick his nose outside the compound. Finally he did, grumbling, "Hell's fire, I'm, going out for a walk...
...recalls the scene: "I felt a shiver of excitement. I shoved Telek [the General's Scotty] under the desk, commanding him not to bark. [The Nazis] marched straight by without as much as a glance . . . sour-faced, glum, erect and despicable. They came to a parade-ground halt, clicked their heels and saluted . . . General Eisenhower stood stock-still, more military than I had ever seen him. His voice was brittle." When it was over, and "the Germans half-bowed, saluted, did an about-face and marched back past my desk and out of the office . . . General...
They piled into two French army trucks and headed for freedom. Four blocks away two Soviet jeeps, bristling with Tommy guns, brought them to a halt. Almost instantly 75 Soviet-sector police swarmed from the shadows of a nearby building. As the Germans were taken, dawn was just beginning to fill the skies above the ruins...
Aided by a high-powered legal battery, the nationalists prepared to go to court this week to seek a writ of habeas corpus to halt the deportation. But the federal government, which has full power to kick out anyone it pleases, would have the last word. Only an order-in-council, passed by the Dominion cabinet, could save De Bernonville...
...announcement was cut short by long, lean Max Reimann, one of the two Communists elected to the assembly. His suit, shirt and tie were a symphony in grey. From a pink sheet of paper he read: "I wish to put forward this resolution: It is resolved that this assembly halt its deliberations on a separate West German constitution and disband immediately. This assembly violates the agreements of Yalta and Potsdam...