Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Britain must try to halt the Rhodesian slaughter...
...does when any Pope dies, the work of the Curia last week came to an abrupt halt. All the officials so recently reappointed by John Paul were again suspended; in the last papal interregnum Camerlengo Villot was so strict that one Cardinal who came by his old office was asked to leave immediately. One other traditional rite will not occur this time. A dead Pope's papal ring is ceremonially smashed; historically, the purpose was to prevent forgeries. But John Paul's papal ring will not be smashed?because there had not yet been time to mint...
...backed guarantee that no reprisals would be taken against union members by the railroads. Then a U.S. district court in Washington postponed a decision on a rail industry call for a no-strike injunction against the union; the court questioned whether the Railway Act empowers the White House to halt a strike already in progress...
Thus did a single 4,600-member local bring two-thirds of the nation's rail operations to a halt. And the disturbing fact remains that, unless the Administration can smooth over the bitter differences between B.R.A.C. and N&W, a replay of last week's turmoil on the rails remains a possibility...
...national guard's brutality in suppressing the rebellion incensed leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, who until recent years had backed Somoza's regime. Church authorities in a letter to Jimmy Carter asked the President to halt all aid to Somoza's "death-dealing regime" and pleaded for U.S. support of the "just demands of the Nicaraguan people, who seek a democratic route to their destiny." To Father Miguel d'Escoto, 45, an activist Maryknoll priest, the guard's barbaric tactics in destroying resistance reflected Somoza's own megalomania: "When the Sandinistas marched into León, they were applauded. That...