Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pair threw a few punches as a play in front of the Engineers' net was whistled to a halt. Neither player connected more than once, but the official sent both players to the sin bin for four minutes for roughing...
Speaking of dissent, we didn't care much for the "time to close ranks" arguments so popular with Administration officials--not to mention campus pro-war activists. Admittedly, anti-war demonstrations can lower troop morale. They can also bring unnecessary wars to a halt. The time for debate is never over. Never...
...about Kuwait that we had heard earlier from Aziz, Belousov and I raised the question about our specialists. He responded instantly and definitely: All who wished could leave, but in the next two months the quota would be limited to 1,000, so as not to hamper work or halt the projects...
Rather than excising the organ which is playing host to the tumor--often a dangerous or impossible procedure--the Harvard researchers found that they could inject a drug to halt the growth of blood vessels near the tumor, thus starving the cancer...
...that timetable could grind to a halt amid fresh outbreaks of black- against-black violence or a growing backlash from disaffected whites. Less than 24 hours after Mandela and Buthelezi embraced last week, an A.N.C.-Inkatha clash killed at least eight people and injured 60 others in Natal province, where most of the country's 6 million Zulus live. In Pretoria police used nightsticks and tear gas to battle 5,000 white farmers who paralyzed traffic by parking farm vehicles on downtown streets. Backed by the Conservative Party and the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, the protesters demanded...