Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last 100 yards or so,'' says Bill Winfrey, "he probably ran the fastest he has ever' run." The Dancer's groom, a devoted, venerable Maryland Negro named Lester Murray, insists that the Dancer was badly disturbed after that race by being led back to the stable without the accustomed halt at the winner's circle...
...turned down. She appealed, and when her lawyer, Sydney Wolfe, appeared last week at the city's Zoning Board of Appeals, the Bellevue Place neighbors, the executive director of the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association and the 42nd Ward's alderman brought the hearings to a grumbling halt. Most truculent was Mrs. Martha Woodard, 75, operator of four Bellevue Place boardinghouses. She shouted at a reporter, "I don't think we need a bar there. The street'll be crawling with the artistic temperament, with the boys with long hair and ribbons in the hair...
...Jenkins then tried to show that Stevens had tried to use Schine to halt the McCarthy investigation. He recalled that Stevens had visited Schine's apartment in New York and later had been the guest of Schine's parents at dinner. He produced a photograph of the Army Secretary posing with Schine, by then in Army uniform. Sneered Jenkins: "Mr. Stevens, isn't it a fact that you were being especially nice and considerate and tender of this boy ... in order to dissuade the Senator from continuing his investigation of one of your departments...
...before the conversation could get underway, Senators Mundt (R.S.D.) and Jackson (D-Wash.) called a halt, lest the hearings become a class reunion...
...Valley, Idaho. Most drivers had the road plotted with military precision, knew just how fast to take each hill, just how to time themselves to miss gas-gobbling traffic lights. (One driver hit only five red lights on the entire run.) Every car finished, and the only unplanned halt was in a howling blizzard at California's 7,135-ft. Donner Pass...