Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...river on barges. The Colorado's raging moods queered that plan. Others tried to ferry it out by helicopter and by light planes; one company managed to fly out 400 tons, a ton at a time, before the canyon's turbulent air and logistics problems forced a halt...
...explanation made clear is that cuts in appropriations this year will mean a serious slashing of actual aid to U.S. allies in 1959 and 1960, no matter what is done by Congress next year. It also made the point that when (and if) the time comes to call a halt to foreign aid the pipeline will have to be plugged two or three years in advance of the proposed cutoff date. The experts' explanation seemed to clear the Senate's vision. At week's end it seemed likely that the Appropriations Committee and the Senate itself would...
...after Davis' story ran in the Post (circ. 203,743), Houston Justice of the Peace Dave Thompson summoned a court of inquiry and decided that the only way to halt Houston's armaments race was by "strict enforcement" of the law requiring gun buyers to show a certificate. Justice Thompson's next step: to issue arrest warrants for six Houston gun dealers and for Reporter Davis, who had already got rid of his pistol and protested that he wouldn't own one at any price-even...
...retrieve a cache of drugs concealed there. After the other woman is killed, Helga, bearing the medicines, sets off alone across a bridge, ignoring the fusillades that crackle from both banks of the river it spans. Then the enemies, in one of those little miracles that sometimes momentarily halt a war, recognize her as a figure of mercy transcending their strife. Both sides call for a ceasefire. Dr. Helga delivers her package to her enemies, staggers back toward her German compatriots, collapses upon the bridge. The cease-fire was ordered too late. A stray bullet-little matter whose-has mortally...
...steep inclines, around mountain curves at 75 m.p.h., D-961, spitting sparks and smoke from the wheels, zipped along until at last, 39 miles out of Salzburg, a 21-year-old diner steward took matters into his own hands, pulled the emergency brake. As the train screeched to a halt at Prien, Stationmaster Johann Birner, roused by frantic phone calls from down the line, said to Oskar: "LokomotivfÜhrer, I think you are drunk...