Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again tonight. High scorer Ike Canty and Phil Haughey will work under the boards, and Bob Hastings, Dick Hurley and Bill Riggs will bring the ball up. Al Lubetkin, like Riggs a product of the House league, may see quite a bit of action, as the five tries to halt a team with five starters averaging 12 or more points per game...
Only Mario Celi, the team's most improved player, managed to halt some of B.C.'s rapid attacks, frequently with solid body-checking. His counterpart, hefty Don Fox, was Boston College's standout as he combined careful defensive work with occasional solo attempts, three of which were stopped only by goalie Flynn...
...rioting that began in Bombay (TIME, Jan. 30) spread right across India. Mobs squatted on railroad tracks to halt trains, crowded onto airfields to prevent planes from landing, blocked roads with trees, broke into jails and freed convicts, looted stores, ripped down telephone wires. Newspapers that had given Nehru steady support were charging the government with "moral bankruptcy." The prestige of the Congress Party had never been lower...
...action. Perhaps the idea of the U.N. ever assuming an active responsibility is now an idle dream. There is, however, almost no other means of asserting our desire for peace convincingly or effectively. And even though a border guard could not arrange a lasting peace, it would at least halt the development of hostilities--calming the atmosphere and making rational consideration on both sides more possible...
...loaded with workers headed toward a mass of cursing, shouting men blocking the entrance to the Westinghouse lamp plant in Bloomfield, N.J. one morning last week. The car plowed through, knocking down a picket and two policemen. In nearby Edison, N.J. four men were injured as they tried to halt cars driving into the local Westinghouse plant. In Sharon, Pa. bricks flew, cars were damaged, and some pickets were hauled off to jail...