Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, Premier Thakin Nu, a devout Buddhist, whom Burmese call "the man with the rosary" because he daily prays for peace, once more called for a halt to the "evil cult" of gun rule. In Rangoon, jeeps and Studebakers owned by Thakin Nu's partisans hustled voters through the driving rain to polling booths. Voting proceeded smoothly. The only untoward incident: in four of Rangoon's 106 polling places, poll watchers threw out all ballots because of a technical oversight-election officials had failed to stamp them with the required rhinoceros seal...
After touring the battle area in a light liaison plane, Marshall said his trip was "purely military," and had "no connection whatever" with peace rumors. Later, in Tokyo, a Chinese reporter asked him where the U.N. forces would halt in North Korea, if they decided to stop advancing...
...week's end there was no sign that the other side-the aggressors' side-was ready to call a halt in Korea...
...electric locomotive) back along the narrowing interval of steel between the two trains. Near Villanova, a mile and a quarter west of the stalled express, the oncoming flyer was ordered to "stop & proceed" at no more than 15 m.p.h. The Red Arrow slid obediently to a halt. But when it started again it inexplicably began picking up speed...
...lights are operated by push buttons, and replace the old green blinking lights with red and yellow walking lights. 'Cliffedwellers will not be able to halt traffic indefinitely, however. The lights must blink green at least 37 seconds in, every minute...