Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have seen this athletic program vitiate the most elementary standards of honesty and right conduct . . . ravage the morale of our student body." The faculty admitted "our share of responsibility . . . for having failed hitherto to halt the insidious growth of these evils." But henceforth, it announced, it intended to take over full control of the entire athletic program-"a beneficial but distinctly subordinate activity of the college...
Rising educational costs will bring proposals for some kind of general federal government subsidy to higher education. Fiscal policies to halt inflationary trends would constitute a major contribution by the federal government to the welfare of higher education. If inflation continues, a federal subsidy would not catch up with or adequately alleviate the dire effects of inflation upon our colleges and universities...
...Passed, by voice vote, the Battle bill empowering the President to halt military and economic aid to any nation selling "arms, ammunition, implements of war and atomic energy materials" to Communist countries (a more workable version of the Kem amendment, which the Administration has pigeonholed...
...Hague, requested an injunction against the seizure. The court promptly scheduled a hearing for June 30, but Iran had already told the court it was not "competent to judge this affair." There was little hope that the court, which has no power to enforce its decisions, could halt the rush of events in Iran...
Hostile journalists actually thought they had evidence of Sherman's insanity. In the midst of a slow, steady advance toward the Cumberland Gap, the report went, Sherman began to imagine shadowy Confederate cavalrymen in the obscure offing. He ordered a halt, then pulled back in alarm, all quite needlessly...