Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means all economic experts agree with the Administration as to the best methods of halting recession-or with Dave McDonald as to the seriousness of the situation. Writing in this week's New York Times Magazine, for example, Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter recommends complete elimination of all the recently reduced excise taxes as the measure which would "almost certainly be sufficient to halt promptly the contraction of business." Reviewing such indexes as consumer buying, production, inventory adjustment, individual savings and housing starts, Slichter concludes that the recession is nearing an end with or without more Government aid. Says...
...whole project was "tragical, not comical." Frankfurter took to task Chairman Robert Moses of the city's Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, which is underwriting the Coliseum, for the "completely dictatorial way [he] is imposing this design upon the public," suggested "recourse to law" to put a halt to the project. Replied Moses: "I am not going to get mad. We are going right ahead and build the Coliseum...
Chandler still brings some of his sentences to a halt with the too-arresting simile or metaphor. An hour crawls by "like a sick cockroach." A clam-lipped Marlowe says: "What I'd tell him you could fold into a blade of grass." But Chandler's world has a rasping authenticity, from its lingo to its lingerie...
...pound matches saw Gordon Smith of Grays stop Phil Southall of Holworthy and Keith Gardiner of Massachusetts halt John Read of Matthews North. Both men scored victories by falls...
...Webb was an unknown news announcer in a San Francisco radio station. Only six years ago he was a "starving" motion picture bit-player. But even then, he was seeking compulsively for handholds, eyes fixed unblinkingly on the heights. No ledge was too narrow, no couloir too deep to halt him. The traveling companions who could not keep up he left behind. Some grabbed for his ankles or coattails. He shook them off. He bounded up to fame almost overnight as Sergeant Joe Friday, the quiet, dark-haired, jug-eared hero of Dragnet (NBC, Thurs. 9 p.m. E.S.T.*). He still...