Word: halt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both of these actions were protested by the American Labor Party, which charged that the judged had "made an unlawful attempt" to halt Feiner's political activities and called for his reinstatement...
Fast tried again. He succeeded in obtaining permission to speak at the C. C. N. Y. night session, but 15 minutes before the speech, the night session dean called a halt. He had been unaware, he said, of college policy on convicted speakers...
...track to meet Ponder jogging back to the presentation stand. The 66-year-old training wizard from Parnell, Mo., a genius at getting a horse ready for one big race, had the look of a man who had fooled even himself. Said little Conn McCreary, who finished fifth aboard Halt: "When the day comes around, he makes you look like a sucker...
...Foreign Relations Committee was beginning hearings on the North Atlantic Treaty and Secretary of State Dean Acheson was the first witness. As photographers flashed and popped, they noted that Acheson's mustache had been clipped down from its usual pukka sahib proportions. Finally, Chairman Tom Connally called a halt to their work with a cracker-barrel dictum. "You can snap," rumbled Connally, "but you can't bulb...
...blanket finish, with little more than a length separating all four: Mrs. Royce G. Martin's Halt, J. A. Kinard Jr.'s Johns Joy, Greentree's Wine List and -fourth-Old Rockport. Hard-Loser Cliff Mooers had a grin on his face. Said he: "We can afford to lose this...