Word: halt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roared angrily across and up the opposite slope and came to a halt under a palm tree. Peter jumped out of the carrier and an officer from another carrier that had followed behind us ran up and said, "Peter, do you think we ought to be here...
This bruise was augmented by his encounter with the Fred Allen program later that night after the Kids vanquished the commentators. Comic Joe Besser hurtled off the stage and bowled the waiting Kupperman into the wings. The Kid came up weeping, but went on anyway. The incident did not halt his plea for a pet to take home with him. Deciding that rabbits "whelped too fast," he settled for a parrot ("It wouldn't eat too much or have to go out for walks...
...Honan. The refugees are stuffed into boxcars, flatcars, old coaches, layer upon layer deep. They are crowded on the roofs, children, old men & women clinging to any possible fingergrip as the trains hurtle along. Sometimes their fingers get so numb from the cold they fall off. The trains never halt...
...clear-cut victory of land-based planes, carefully coordinated, over a concentration of ships and their escorting aircraft. Bombers operating at all angles and altitudes had shown new accuracy. But heavy and medium bombers, coming in low, had dealt the deathblows. U.S. airmen's bumbling failure to halt or even hit a similar Jap convoy bound for New Guinea last July had been retrieved...
...central sector Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's suddenly withered forces offered no resistance. Their plentiful sowing of land mines and booby traps delayed but did not halt the advance of U.S. troops, who overran Feriana and the Roman ruins of Sbeitla, jogged on past Sidibou Zid and regained virtually all the ground which they had lost during Rommel's savage attempt to crack the middle of the Allied ring three weeks ago. Rommel clung to Gafsa, which gave him a springboard for another attempt. But his hold was precarious. He was in danger of being outflanked by French...