Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deep in the forest, the jeep came to a halt and waited in darkness and silence. "The forest was full of eyes," said Henderson afterwards. "The pulse rate was not exactly normal," added Policeman Bernard Ruck. Presently there came a rustling, footsteps, then dark shapes. Two Mau Mau warriors loomed alongside. Henderson waved them aboard and the four drove out of the forest...
...second place, but hopelessly behind, was Briggs Cunningham's third entry, a little (1.452 cc.) Italian Osca alternately driven during the day by Britain's Stirling Moss and Connecticut's Bill Lloyd. But with only an hour to go, Taruffi's Lancia ground to a halt. In the Cunningham pits, where the Osca driver could see it when he flashed by, they held up a sign: "NO. 38 SICK." And No. 38 was sick. There was still a chance that Taruffi's mechanics could get it started again. Striving to remain eligible, Taruffi himself pushed...
Every year Administration officials breathe more easily when the Smoker staggers to a halt. Although they are never satisfied with the Smoker, they feel it is worth the risk despite the yearly threat of injury and serious property destruction. It seems, they have said, a good psychological defense against the exuberance that freshmen feel when they find that three C's and a D are not so hard to get after all-that same exuberance which leads to riots and bomb throwing in the Yard. It was an attempt to substitute foam flecked Brotherhood and Good Fellowship for town-gown...
Shea was the undergraduate who tried to present a deodorized skunk to Owen D. Lattimore when the Johns Hopkins professor spoke in New Lectures Halt on March 2. Following the action, Robertson commended the action. It is known that Robertson has met regularly with Shea...
...four "restricted" sessions with the West which were held to discuss Molotov's proposed five-power meeting including Communist China, he stubbornly demanded a full place for Red China as an equal partner. The West refused. Even France's Bidault, under heavy pressure for negotiations that might halt the wasting Indo-Chinese war, stood sturdily with his Western colleagues in demanding that any conference should be confined to specific issues. The West's proposal was for a Big Four meeting on Korea first. If this proved fruitful-and only then-the Big Four could call another conference...