Word: halt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will have to put the car into reverse without even coming to a halt. Simultaneously we will have to start the final stages of our plans for the laborious process of demobilization. In this we will find ourselves in the middle of a storm that will make everything else that we have gone through seem like a summer zephyr...
...Among ardent strategic airmen a"Cassino"is an overblown operation in which bombers that should be striking at the enemy's heart are used instead to whittle at his fingertips, the targets are broken to complete rubble, and the whole project sags to a halt because of sluggish work on the ground...
Allied headquarters carefully prepared the public for the coming halt. Communiques and spokesmen said the Gothic Line was the strongest natural-defense line in Italy, more formidable even than the Gustav defenses, which held below Rome all winter...
...When the halt comes, General Sir Harold Alexander has several choices. He can assault frontally, which may be a slow and costly operation. He can attack on the Adriatic side, where the Line is narrowest. He can try landings on either side. Or he can sit, keep the Germans engaged in Italy while things happen to them on other fronts...
...civilian undergraduates in the University, the smallest number in 69 years, we were forced to stop in the Yard the other day to take account of what was going on and revise some of our ideas about civilian undergraduates. We had thought that this group was composed of the halt, the lame and the blind, plus a handful of others whose draft boards had been a trifle lenient...