Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This race has become a three-team tossup. After looking invincible during August, the Red Sox have tumbled into a tail spin. Even 20-game Winner Luis Tiant could not halt a losing streak that dropped the Red Sox into second place late last week. While Boston has been losing, New York and Baltimore have been winning. The surprising Yankees, who have not won a pennant in ten years, sport no Mantles or DiMaggios this year. Some frantic trading eventually paid off, though, and the erratic Bombers began to wring winning performances out of an assortment of new arrivals...
...with Boston City Hospital, are guilty of having carried off a human body without authorization for purposes of dissection. Flanagan says the case is very simple, and his explanation suggests that the alleged crime is not much different from the acts of graverobbing the involved statute was meant to halt when it was introduced...
...resister became the center of an international incident last week. The scene was the tall, marble Peace Arch just north of Elaine, Wash., which marks the border between the U.S. and Canada. One afternoon a car drove past the arch and its surrounding gardens and rolled to a halt beneath the portico of the U.S. customs building. The customs official on duty routinely noted the car's license number, then punched it into his computer-which is part of the Treasury Emergency Communication System and is tied into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's national crime computers. Almost...
Little has been done to halt the country's serious economic drift. The leaders of the Armed Forces Movement (A.F.M.) inherited a high rate of inflation (currently 30% a year) and a chronic balance of trade deficit (expected to be $500 million this year), when they took power in April. But since then lack of confidence in the political future has made the problem worse. "Business hates a system where the rules of the game are not known," complains a leading Lisbon oil executive. "The government holds marathon sessions and argues and argues, but it never makes a decision...
...under pressure from leftist factions in the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. Many observers were predicting that the campaign heralded some major new development-perhaps on the scale of the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. In recent weeks, however, the mysterious program has been grinding to a halt without any apparent major changes being produced...