Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the score at 1 to 1, both team's defensemen began to halt offenseve jumps with hard, dumping bodychecks and then even linemen were being penalized with center-zone "elbowing" and "interference." After a solo attempt by Doug Manchester ended in D'Entremont's pads, the versatile defenseman took the puck down again just ten second later and sent a goal-scoring pass to wingman Ned Bliss...
Moscow has now arrived at the conclusion that for a time extension of the Soviet system over new lands and nations must come to a halt because of the growing power of the non-Soviet world. A middle road between the extremes of formal sovereignty and outright annexation will be found, if only in order to maintain votes...
Because the economy was still shaking from the inflationary impact of the minimum wage decree when Gudin became Finance Minister, he was unable to halt the cruzeiro's slide right away. His immediate aim is to slow down the rate of in flation from the recent 2% a month to a mild 6% a year...
...employees of the U.N. forces (a more than $1,500,000-a-month payroll). Moreover, the U.S. refused to allot any more oil to South Korea unless it was paid for at 310 to $1. When Rhee balked at this, fishing boats stayed in port, buses ground to a halt, some 300 factories closed down for lack of fuel, and seven desperate Koreans, trying to tap a U.S. pipeline for gasoline, were killed in an explosion. Still stubborn old Syngman Rhee stood fast. A fortnight ago the U.S. Army began paying its 100,000 Korean employees and contractors in greenbacks...
Just three years after her marriage to Captain Horace Brown, oldtime Cinemactress Marion Davies, longtime great and good friend of the late William Randolph Hearst, decided to call a halt, filed a divorce suit against Brown alleging mental cruelty. Marion and Captain Horace had the same sort of trouble in 1952, but made up before court convened. This time, though, it seemed that Marion intended to go through with it. Hollywood was not surprised, because it had been a stormy marriage. Even for fun-loving Marion, Captain Horace was a cutup. On one occasion he found a gun and shot...