Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon agreed to halt administration lobbying for a labor bill--a bill which Packwood led the fight for in the Senate--in exchange for an endorsement by the Teamsters Union in the 1972 election...
TIME'S picture of the President's "economic policy advisers" grasping baseball bats to "go to bat against inflation" certainly indicates the futility we all face in looking to Government to halt rising costs. Just what I need: bats, buttons and more rhetoric...
Thomas KÖpcke, 18, was one of West Germany's more promising young boxers. Just last year the sturdily built youth was runner-up in his nation's junior heavyweight competitions. Now KÖpcke's career has been brought to an abrupt halt by an X-ray device known as the CAT scanner...
...time it finally dawned on me that any moment, with any slip, I could die, that, in fact, I probably would--especially since there was no safe way to get across the snowfield. The only thing to do was to sit and slide on the snow and try to halt before the rocks, which reared up like so many menacing bone-breakers, stopped me. So I did, and it worked. The snow even warmed my legs, which scared me. I started to worry seriously. No one was anywhere in sight. There was only snow and rock, inhospitable and oblivious, almost...
Poised Eli quarterback Pat O'Brien guided the I-option running attack and explosive passing game downfield cooly, as the visitors marched decisively for 74 yards in 13 plays in a 7-zip lead. Even a 15-yard holding penalty failed to halt the Eli onslaught...