Word: halt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arms supplied to the Atlantic Pact countries, are used strictly to bolster this areas defenses, government officials said yesterday. This means that the Dutch and the French could not use American guns, ammunition and equipment in Indonesia and Fronck-Indonesia. The American government would reserve the right to halt all arms shipments to any country violating these conditions...
Trade News. In São Paulo, Brazil, the Paulista Pugilistic Federation, meeting in conference, was forced to halt proceedings temporarily when the session turned into a free-for-all fist fight...
Last week the State Department peremptorily called a halt. It ruled that the visas of 17 Iron Curtainers were no longer valid, ordered the men to leave the country as soon as possible. Before they left, the visitors got a quick look around, and did a little shopping. One night Composer Shostakovich slipped quietly into a balcony seat at a Manhattan concert to hear the forbidden "formalist" music of Hungary's late Bela Bartok...
...said, "is like a machine that has run way down. Part needs oiling, part replacing, part overhauling. Before this machine can achieve top efficiency again, every single piece must be functioning smoothly. Germany is the carburetor of this machine." He had staunchly backed ECA's drive to halt the dismantling of Ruhr factories...
...Lisbon's small and elegant Hotel Aviz, where most globe-trotters halt for a quick refresher, one wall is covered with the exploits of Diaz, Da Gama, Magellan and other great Portuguese explorers. On the opposite wall, a plaque pays tribute to the foremost explorer of the modern world of the air-Juan Terry Trippe. The plaque commemorates the rediscovery of the old world by the new: the first passenger flight of Trippe and his Pan American Airways Dixie Clipper from the U.S. to Lisbon on June...