Search Details

Word: halt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Ever since the U.S. bombing halt went into effect on Aug. 15, the most ominous question about Cambodia's future has been: When would the Hanoi-backed Khmer insurgents make their big move? Despite several weeks of concentrated assaults by American B-52s, the rebel forces had been able to move to within ten miles of the capital of Phnom-Penh prior to the deadline. Those sweeping advances suggested that the troops of Cambodian President Lon Nol, once they were denied the support of U.S. warplanes, would be hard-pressed to stave off a major enemy attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: The Rebels Move | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

Fearing the spread of the disease, health officials in several countries began demanding that travelers returning from Italy show certificates of immunization against cholera. That action apparently is not enough to halt the march of the disease. Scattered cases have already been reported in Sweden, Britain, France and West Germany. The majority of those stricken in Northern European countries have not even been to Italy. Most appeared to have picked up the disease in North Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cholera on the March | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

Plans for the Institute, four years in the offing, have been beset by many of the same troubles that have plagued the Afro Department's early existence. Controversy over control of the Institute has brought planning to a virtual halt, making a 1970 prediction that a research program would begin during 1970-71 look like a sick joke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DuBois Institute Beset By Planning Problems | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...Administration-ordered bust and the efforts of Pusey and Franklin L. Ford, former dean of the Faculty, to circumvent the decision brought the University to a halt. By April, when it reaffirmed its February decision, the Faculty had factionalized almost irreparably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No ROTC | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...behavior lay a sudden, pinching shortage of newsprint, the rough, lightweight paper that is daily journalism's staff of life. Around 65% of the newsprint consumed in the U.S. comes from Canada, where a nationwide rail strike last week brought major deliveries to the U.S. to a halt. That only dramatized older problems. A wet spring hampered logging operations this year, and summer strikes at many of Canada's major paper mills have reduced production from 28,000 to 22,000 tons daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brighter Alternatives | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

Previous | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | Next