Word: halt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sensitive colleague asked Frank to halt his reading of the explicit passages. "There's a typical censor's mentality," quipped Frank. "The representative wants to keep all the fun for himself...
Whopping Levels. So far, at least, there is no clear evidence that consumers are in any danger from VC. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency have, as a precautionary measure, put a halt to the distribution of spray products using VC propellants.* The FDA had already ordered companies to stop bottling whisky in PVC bottles; whisky dissolves the plastic. Other PVC products offered to the consumer have yet to be proved unsafe...
...start of production 36 years ago, 18 million copies of the inelegant rear-engine car designed by Ferdinand Porsche have been sold round the world; yet now the world's joyride with the Beetle appears to have stalled, so thoroughly that production has ground to a temporary halt...
...Radcliffe lacrosse team's two game winning streak came to a screeching halt yesterday as the University of New Hampshire pasted Radcliffe, 6-1. The loss evened Radcliffe's record...
...conflict since 1969 to 998. In addition, 28 were wounded in bombings by extremists of the Provisional Irish Republican Army that devastated Belfast and three other towns. The violence further threatened already fading hopes that a Catholic-Protestant coalition Cabinet inaugurated on Jan. 1 would finally bring to a halt the unrelenting agony of the province. In the three months since the coalition took over, there have been more than 60 violent deaths and 200 explosions...