Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half have popularized. And American education, despite its accomplishments, will remain an open target for unscrupulous politicians. The method of Furry and Kamin, then, for all its justified hatred of McCarthy's methods, and honest loyalty towards friends, is actually giving ammunition to the very forces it seeks to halt...
...some observers, this close line-up suggested the prospect of dramatic hairline votes, with the party leaders dragging the halt and bedridden to the floor. In fact, the arithmetic creates an illusion that harks back to the days before the direct primary, the days when U.S. political parties had cohesion, enforced by such instruments of discipline as copious federal patronage for local political organizations, which, in turn, picked party nominees for Congress...
...TIME, Oct. 12). Yoshida's 1954 budget, announced last week, totals 994.3 billion yen ($2.76 billion), which is 32 billion yen less than actual expenditures last year. But-significantly-the new figure is 33.8 billion yen higher than the original 1953 budget estimates. Despite the urgent need to halt inflation, Japan will probably spend more money this year than last...
From the fort, as it had 150 years ago, came a roll of drums to halt the fighting momentarily. The "French" commander sent out a new mount and the general's compliments on the horseman's bravery. Then the drums rolled again, the' battle was resumed, the fort captured...
...Grouse once brightly mated politics and humor; they have been less successful matchmakers with politics and thrills. They have staunch allies in Actress Cornell and an able cast-including Felix Aylmer as the British delegate; they start off with a genuinely promising first act. After that, things tend to halt at times, and at others to go downhill. The play's serious side, too solemn for a suspense yarn, is too superficial for anything else. To keep really alive, the play should have clung like a leech to its corpse...