Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Australia almost every day, and sometimes three or four times a day, lottery barrels revolve with the roar of express trains. Flagged to a halt, the barrel is opened, and a distinguished guest with a chromium-plated "extractor" begins withdrawing white-numbered marbles that bring small fortunes to the holders of correspondingly numbered tickets. Even the bored lottery clerks buy tickets, as recently happened in Western Australia when Clerk Neil Watts, writing down the numbers as they were drawn, shouted, "Hey, that's me!" discovered that he had won a $6,750 jackpot...
...Cyprus. But the special tragedy of Cyprus is that it involves friends, and that the suffering should be so simply avoidable. A clear statement from the British government promising the right of self-determination at a definite time in the near future to Cyprus' 520,000 people could halt overnight a conflict that daily grows more violent and more dangerous. Week by week it becomes more apparent that Britain's release of control of Cyprus to its inhabitants is not only the just solution, but the inevitable one. "One wonders," wrote the conservative London Daily Telegraph...
...house intramural athletic program has come to a temporary halt with the advent of Christmas holidays. No standings are yet ready in squash, which began competition this week, but in basketball and hockey the following represent the current standings. Competition resumes again on Jan. 9. BASKETBALL (A League) W L W L WIN 3 0 KIR 2 2 LOW 3 1 ADAMS 1 3 LEV 2 1 DUN 1 2 ELIOT 2 2 DUD 0 3 BASKETBALL (B League) W L W L WIN 3 0 ELIOT...
...Cambridge policeman fired two shots in the Radcliffe Quardrangle about 3 a.m. yesterday to halt three M.I.T. students who, according to one of them, were trying "to pull a hometown prank...
...such a license without a censor's written approval that the film was in keeping with the character of the day. Even the State government got into the act; the Commissioner of Public Safety had to see the picture, too. All this censorship machinery, however, came to a sudden halt last summer. On July 6, 1955, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled the Sunday censorship law unConstitutional...