Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was scarcely a dry eye last week on a trio of radio & TV shows. On CBS, Funnyman Red Buttons' career came to a halt almost as suddenly as it began. Two years ago Buttons came from nowhere (small parts in show business) to rank in the first five of TV's most popular shows. This year his rating dipped sharply and, though it strengthened in the past few months, Sponsor Maxwell House Coffee decided to drop him for a completely new show this fall...
...tact and patience and good will have made her literally invaluable. She is the embodiment of the wisdom and tradition of 4 University Hall and the true exemplar of that select company of selfless women servants of the University without whom Harvard's wheels would quickly grind to a halt."MISS GLADYS M. FALES, supervisor of the Student Employment Office, places nearly 2,000 students a year in a wide range of local jobs...
...Class of '54 will hold its Senior Spread tonight, in the Lowell House courtyard. Festivities will include a formal dance starting about 10 p.m., scheduled to come to a halt at 3 a.m., with a "midnight" dinner for an interlude...
Citation: "Now commanding the forces of the U.S. and of the United Nations in a crucial area of strategic concern in the free world's effort to halt the spread of Communism, keeper of the alert watchfulness and bearer of the prayerful hopes of free...
...rest of the three-year-old season, the Dancer saw to it that the halt en route was not omitted. He took the other bright gemstones of the Triple Crown, the Preakness at a mile and three-sixteenths and the Belmont at a mile and a half, and just about every other three-year-old prize worth having east of the Mississippi. It proved that in addition to speed, the Dancer had stamina; the greater the distance, the better he seemed to go. But in September 1953 Trainer Winfrey detected some soreness in the Dancer's left forefoot...