Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scored early in the second period past goalie captain Bruce Durno, and Harvard's offense came to a faltering halt. Repeatedly missing close-in shots and muffing passes, the Crimson managed two goals to keep up with...
...following day. Meanwhile, we revert to undeclared peace and resume our count. General Ho could control the number of bombs to be dropped on his people every day. The people of the North would have the knowledge that their leaders had intentionally invited whatever suffering they received and could halt it any day they wished...
...understandably embarrassed by the situation, since they support Oxnam in his desire to improve the university but do not want the divinity school to lose its luster. Unfortunately, the atmosphere of distrust and discouragement at the seminary is such that there now seems to be no way to halt its decline-and Oxnam may find it difficult to hire qualified replacements for the men who have already quit...
...Rollei is rolling again. The company has called a halt to its long dependence on the 120-mm. Rolleiflex, priced at $260-to-$450 in the U.S., and is focusing on the growing market for smaller 35-mm. models. Though overall German camera sales tumbled by 7% last year, Rollei's rose by 40% from $9,000,000 to an estimated $12.5 million. So strong is demand that the company looks for sales increases of 25% this year and next-if the factory can handle...
...timidity of Canada's position on Vietnam has a less obscure basis--a well-founded respect for American power in the Canadian economy. Pearson has nonetheless made an occasional foray into the debate over Vietnam, notably in a Philadelphia speech in April, 1965, when he called for a halt in U.S. bombings of North Vietnam. He met with President Johnson a few days later at Camp David; Johnson was enraged by Pearson's initiative, and the two men did not meet again for well over a year...