Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years old, a parliamentary committee found. Furthermore, cab owners are losing about .78 pence a mile, and higher rates would not help, since the last increase brought a commensurate drop in fares. The only company now making cabs (Austin) is down to five orders a week and ready to halt production unless orders increase...
...said before. He stuck to his guns, insisting that shortages of ammunition-especially of mortar and 155-mm. howitzer shells- had made it impossible to "plan adequate defensive fire, harassing, interdiction and counterbattery, to keep the enemy from launching an attack." Asked whether he had enough ammunition to halt a Chinese offensive, Van Fleet replied: Yes, but only because "the Chinese cannot maintain an offensive for more than a few weeks. They do not know how." Van Fleet got strong supporting fire from the subcommittee's only other witness of the week: Lieut. General Edward M. Almond (ret.), commander...
...Korea sparked Western rearmament. By 1956, the Kremlin may reckon, the Communist world is apt to find itself confronted by an armed and aroused U.S., supported by a coalition in which German and Japanese arms loom large. Here again, fact bolsters guess: now is perhaps the last chance to halt the rearmament of Western Germany...
With a 3 to 0 lead at the end of the quarter, Munro put in his third and fourth midfields. But this failed to halt the onslaught as Curtis scored unassisted at 4:22 and Waring followed 20 seconds later. Deleware got its first counter near the end of the half, and added two more in the third quarter, but the Crimson was not to be denied. The locals hit for another to end the scoring in the third period as both teams were shut out in the final quarter...
...attempt before vacation to bring civil suit against Curry was sidetracked when a Cambridge Clerk of Courts mistakenly initiated criminal proceedings. The Democratic Club called a halt to all action on the criminal case which it insists was "an error from beginning...