Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the mill ground to a halt, probably for good. The old easygoing law was quietly repealed, largely because of pressure from Mexico's federal government, which for years has been embarrassed at the image Juárez gave the country. Because it was Mexico, no one was entirely sure of what the new divorce rules were, but Eugenio Calzada, a highly respected Juárez lawyer, said flatly: "Divorces for Americans are finished." From now on, Americans will apparently have no place to which they can travel alone, shed a mate in one day and be reasonably...
Although Harvard's defense gave up 417 yards in total offense, it consistently came up with the big play. Rick Frisbee picked off a Princeton pass in the end zone in the first quarter, and Jack Neal came up with one of his two interceptions to halt a Princeton drive late in the first half...
...actors who can look gaudy wearing nothing but blue jeans. But both characters have infantile psyches; they seem as incapable of sorrow as of happiness. The aimless script is even more anesthetized. Its lame jokes are articulated by stunted heroes and vapid chicks: the halt leading the bland. Though its budget appears generous, the film's editing is cut-rate; scenes end in mid-sentence and time is perpetually out of joint...
...immediate halt to any police search for the kidnapped Trade Commissioner...
...telephone and telegraph employees left their jobs. When railway workers followed last week, the 10 million people in Sicily and the toe of the Italian boot were virtually cut off from the rest of the ''country. Barricades and wrecked tracks forced trains from the north to halt two hours short of Reggio. The Highway of the Sun, Italy's main north-south autostrada, was sealed off. With the port blocked, hundreds of trucks and freight cars stood idle on the other side of the Straits of Messina...