Word: halt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiz show went on for more than an hour and a half before Morse called a halt. Political reporters who heard him thought that he came out on top. Morse is up for re-election next year; so far, his possible opponents, like his questioners, are still out of sight...
...Radcliffe. The Dean's Office has become extremely worried about Harvard-Radcliffe relations since joint instruction was adopted as an emergency measure during the war and instituted permanently after the war. The Dean's Office is determined to halt what it considers an unfortunate trend towards closer union with Radcliffe, especially in undergraduate activities...
...double trucks are impressive. But if all national advertising copy had been as dull, boring and obtuse as in your series, the great American mass production machine would have ground to a halt long...
...hopes in presenting this series was that other publications would devise further campaigns in advertising's behalf. For without the swift exchange of goods and news about those goods our economy would grind to a halt. It was to the wider understanding of that basic truth that TIME Inc.'s "Campaign About Advertising" was directed...
...rolled north on Lenox Avenue to address another gathering. An aroused, noisy crowd, some carrying torches, formed behind two blaring sound trucks and marched along Lenox after them. Ten policemen, who had let the parade form, got to worrying about possible trouble, and ordered the parade to halt for lack of a permit. One of the sound trucks broke into a menacing roar: "We will not be stopped by blue-coated fascists." Onlookers could not agree on what happened next, but the Ben Davis victory parade suddenly degenerated into a near-riot. Hundreds of bystanders were caught...