Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this sensational talk last week brought no halt to waterfront corruption. It was hard to say whether it ever would...
...with Berber troops and the quick march of the blue-black Senegalese riflemen. They were met by a mob of some 10,000 screaming Arabs armed with sticks, stones and anything else that could pierce or bludgeon. Hard-bitten French Commandant Louis Durand three times commanded the mob to halt. As the Arabs continued to surge forward, Durand gave the order; the crack of rifle fire split the air and an estimated 40 Arabs dropped. The rest dispersed to carry on the fight from rooftops and doorways. French observation planes circled overhead to keep track of other mobs snaking angrily...
...developed by Milton Gunzburg, an ex-screen writer, and his brother Julian, an eye surgeon. The process was licensed by radio's veteran Producer-Writer-Director Arch Oboler, who turned out Bwana Devil, a jungle yarn starring Robert Stack, Barbara Britton and some man-eating lions that almost halt the building of an African railroad...
...might drop would be lucky to hit the-right country. The project, Rosen warns, would sop up most of the U.S. supply of qualified technical men. While they were aiming at space, the guided missile program-which military planners consider vital to U.S. safety-would grind to a halt...
...Harvard Band, and with it the annual Yale rally, screeched to a halt in the Yard last night, when the Cambridge police put a last minute brake on plans for a parade through the Square. Fearing that the newly-planned route might stir up a disturbance and hold up traffic for an hour or six, as has happened so often in recent years, the police had the Band running around in circles in the Yard until it finally settled down on the Widener steps. Then, there was cheering, singing, and general carousing. The Band played the usuals and added "Where...