Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office of the President of Brazil one day last week. President Joāo Café Filho greeted her with a smile, pointed to a chair beside his ornate jacaranda-wood desk. Lucilla Carvalho sat down and told her story. Her leg had been amputated in an effort to halt cancer, and doctors had told her she would die unless she went to the U.S. for treatment. Could the President help...
Henry A. Bunker '58 and Harold R. Andrews '58, members of the M.I.T. Rocket Club, were heating ammonium hydroxide and picric acid in an attempt to make rocket fuel. The mixture apparently reached its explosion point, 360 degrees Centigrade, before the students could halt...
...days before Chiang made his statement, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson returned to Washington from a flying visit with him. Reports had circulated that Robertson's mission was made to halt Nationalist air attacks on the Red China coast. These reports, said Robertson, were wrong...
...Down) is perhaps less than delicate. But for that matter, so is the band. The niceties of nuance and proprieties of gentlemanly behavior are for more sedate organizations. Once, in a typically caustic vein at a typically ragged rehearsal, Holmes announced: "This has got to come to a screeching halt." He may well have expected the bandsmen to stop screeching, but as for a half, well, in spite of money troubles. Yale brickbats, and fatiguing greyhound bus trips,--the Sprit of the Harvard Bend Goes On and On.MALCOLM H. HOLMES...
...make treaties and direct foreign policy. At book's end, the hero reluctantly decides to accept a second term to avert a widening split between Hamilton and Jefferson and thus save the new republic. And at that point, Historian Freeman's stiff-backed prose comes to a halt. Scribner is now looking for a suitable historian to write the concluding Volume VII, bringing George Washington through his last six years...