Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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VATICAN CITY, Nov. 24--Pope Pius XII said today a doctor legitimately may halt artificial respiration for a dying patient in some cases if the patient's family requests...
...other hand, many market experts realize that the same psychological whimsy that has sent the market into a slump can halt its decline at the least sign of brightening economic weather. At week's end, Wall Street kept an anxious eye on the business barometers. Said Walston & Co.'s Edmund W. Tabell, one of the Street's top market analysts: "If Christmas sales and automobile sales pick up, 420 will be the bear market...
...hockey games of the season. Then a couple of Rangers were waved into the penalty box. Determined to score a tie-breaking goal, Detroit sent five forwards lunging down ice toward the undermanned Ranger defenses. But before a shot could be fired, the startled Red Wings scraped to a halt. All of a sudden there was nothing to shoot at. The squat goal was still there, but it was turned completely around, its open end facing the backboards. Alongside stood the Rangers' Rookie Goalie Marcel Faille. He was the picture of puzzled innocence, waiting for someone to do something...
Referee Dalton McArthur made the only move possible. He whistled play to a halt until repairs could be made. By the time the Red Wings got going again, Ranger penalty time was running out. Soon the New Yorkers were at full strength, and they saved their...
Most discouraging of all, Boston's soaring rates scare away the new industries which might halt the trend by bringing in new income to the city. Recently, the Prudential Life Insurance Company cancelled plans for a Boston project for this reason. Instead of industries, tax-exempt institutions have invaded the Metropolitan area, many of them serving state-wide and even nationwide interests, as do Harvard and M.I.T., for example. Boston is rapidly becoming a city of students, scientists, and humanitarians--which is fine for everyone except the tax-paying manufacturer...