Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Releasin, which has the properties of relaxin. In a human, the drug does not work as drastically as in gophers, but it has the effect of "softening" tissues in the birth canal. It does not simply make delivery easier-though it does that too. Its chief virtue is to halt premature labor so that a fetus can be carried to term, or nearly so. In 75% of 200 cases so far, Releasin has been successful in thus arresting premature labor...
...Supreme Court majority ruled that Wisconsin had a right to halt a prolonged, violence-ridden strike against the Kohler Co., a plumbing-equipment firm. But Warren, Black and Douglas dissented vigorously. Arguing that the Wisconsin fair labor statute duplicated federal law, Justice Douglas wrote that the overlapping of remedies was "pregnant with potentialities of clashes and conflicts" and that the court majority was opening the door "to unseemly conflicts between state and federal agencies...
...political views of Washington attempted to halt the disfranchisement of Negroes by state constitutional amendments that Mississippi had begun in 1890 and that South Carolina was about to enact when Washington delivered his Atlanta address. Shortly thereafter he urged that the same qualifications for voting be required of whites as of Negroes and that, as the ballot box was closed, the school houses should be opened. These sound suggestions were not followed. By 1910 all the Southern states had adopted constitutional provisions or enacted legislation that disfranchised much large numbers of Negroes than of whites. At the same time more...
...prince's debts. Father Nizam paid off some $4,720,000, and the prince promised to reform. But he didn't. In the past twelve months he has chalked up debts some $500,000 in excess of his income. Last week the Nizam called a halt: Azam's 23-year-old son, now at Sandhurst, and not Azam himself, would become the Nizam's heir. Henceforth, the Nizam announced in an ad in a local paper, anyone lending money to son Azam "would have to bear the consequences and blame themselves for their losses...
...carrying all their household goods. Puzzled, their chief approached the head of the six-man government team from Isfahan. "Who are you? What is all this about?" he asked. Beside his white tent, the government man explained: Isfahan province is annually plagued by smallpox; the government* was determined to halt its spread and annual flare-ups caused by unvaccinated nomads like the Bakhtiari. The tribesman was amazed that the great, remote world of big government could be interested in his health. At first he hesitated, but as the loudspeaker took up the refrain, "Better one small scar on your...