Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Near dusk, the demonstrators began the mile-long march to the hotel. Though they had a permit to parade, Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Orlando Rhodes had issued an injunction forbidding them to halt. But the marchers were unable to continue when about 5,000 spectators jammed the street in front of the hotel where John son was elaborating on his summit-based hopes for world peace...
...beheld the fleeing Coburn. He gave chase, caught Coburn, beat him around the head and ears with his night stick. Co-Star Godfrey Cambridge doubled up with laughter. "Man," he said, "that's a real cop, and he's going to make lieutenant." Unamused, Coburn called a halt to the day's activity and went home to nurse a nasty...
...days of hearings and trial sessions, an endless procession of witnesses, ranging from ambassadors to ex-convicts, turned up at the Palais de Justice. Judges and jury were harangued by 15 lawyers and deluged with more than 5,000 documents. Last week the trial finally came to a halt. Only two defendants drew any significant rap: the part-time secret-service agent got eight years in prison; a vice-squad cop six. Oufkir, still safe in Morocco, was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment, as were the four French gangsters who are still on the lam. Colonel Dlimi, who dramatically...
...Mississippi, evidence does not always equal conviction, especially in civil rights cases. Still, acquittal seemed unlikely last week for eight white men on trial in U.S. District Judge Claude Clayton's court in Oxford. The cause of it all was a wild white mob that undeniably tried to halt school integration in Grenada last fall by flailing Negro schoolchildren with fists, feet, clubs and chains. According to the U.S. prosecutor, the defendants, including a justice of the peace, were part of that mob -and he had 25 witnesses to prove...
...main attraction of community organizing is the chance it gives Harvard dissenters to act in what they consider a constructive manner to halt the war. The current widespread alienation from the government--and the normal politics which seems to maintain it -- has stimulated many students who were previously apathetic over public affairs to become involved...