Word: halt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly, one of the men stopped short, whirled, and poked a revolver through the wire fence, shouting threats to Harper, who had come to a sudden halt in the face of possible gunfire...
...walked down the narrow, cobblestoned, smelly streets, our footsteps clattered loudly. At the sound frightened faces pressed against windows, were reassured by the uniforms. Along Jews Street, the quarter's center, only a few shops were open. Life in the Jewish quarter had ground to a shuddering halt as Arab violence flared up at the announcement of Palestine's partition. Those Jews whom we did see clung closely to their doorsteps, ready to flee inside at the slight est warning. The only Jew oblivious to it all was a turbaned Moorish Jew, who sat silently leaning against...
...rode, he and the driver argued over what should happen to me. The usual procedure, if they catch a Yahudi, is to shoot him at once. Finally, the driver said: "Look, would I be carrying a Yahudi?" That seemed to do the trick, so the assassin motioned him to halt at a side road. As he climbed out, he glanced up & down for British patrols, then turned towards me and, bringing his gun up to his brow, he said: "B'khatirkum," meaning "by your leave." I nodded, found all I could say was: "Thanks...
...Buffalo Liver. Parkman lived with the plains Indians just before they took to the warpath to halt the whites. Often he traveled with only two companions, but, Boston gentleman that he was, always carried calling cards. He learned to eat boiled dog and to like raw buffalo liver, and discovered that the noble savage of Novelist James Fenimore Cooper was a library creation. Parkman thought Indians "not much better than brutes...
With red lights flickering and gongs clanging, University Hall's immensely efficient International Business Machines ground to a halt last night, spewing forth the last set of unimpeachable mid-term grade sheets for moist-palmed and dyspeptic undergraduates...