Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time has come to call a halt to this planners' world," Crane concluded...
...order to halt the smuggling, the Congo government has put major mining areas under martial law and increased the fines and jail sentences on contraband gem carriers. Kassanda is urging even stronger measures. "If not, smugglers will continue the traffic using their secret cavities," he says, "and all the fingers of the mines' police will not be enough to block the smuggling of our diamonds...
...Parliament, to which he was elected as a Labor M.P. two years ago. Characteris tically, Maxwell was the first member to make his maiden speech. "I was glad he waited until the Queen finished," sniffed one critic. Maxwell shrugs off such gibes. His ambition now, he says, is "to halt the retreat of our country." As a start, he is flooding the market with texts, handbooks, tapes and films to help companies cope with Britain's massive new effort to retrain industrial workers. He expects to reap another fortune...
Last month Ibo passengers on West African Airways' London-to-Lagos jet were hauled off the plane and machine-gunned in the northern Nigerian way station of Kano. Pan American's New York-to-Nairobi Flight 150 lived up to the tradition. Last week a simple refueling halt enroute grew into an international incident...
...affluence have also altered his style. His rhythm songs now have about as much rock as a rocking chair, and the most widely deplored Pelvis in human history has practically ground to a halt. The Presley phiz moves even ]ess-it just twitches now and then, maybe to scare off flies. For Presley, immobility may signify maturity. He is pitching his act at some sort of adult audience-possibly adult chimpanzees...