Word: halte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a jerky bump and the boat swerved and came to a halt. We leaped out into the darkness and with fearful suddenness sank in water up to our necks. Close by there was the sharp crackle of a machine gun and a whining and metallic plunking as if something were striking the side of our boat...
From transports standing between the destroyers and the battleships came swarms of landing boats, dashing through the hot red tracer fire from enemy shore batteries and machine guns, grinding to a halt on the steep shores, discharging their men, then hastening back to the transports for another load. Engineers and assault infantrymen led the way ashore, scurried to cover, set up machine guns, charted underwater obstacles at the landing points, then started clearing away barbed wire with Bangalore torpedoes...
Debs are almost uniformly dull, but they do give parties. If you get invited to the Brattle Hall dances or the Eliot Hall dances, go; if the war hasn't put a halt to parties by next year, you'll get to know "the right girls" and be eligible for the stag lines...
...elevated to Rouge boss in 1933. A quick and practical improviser, Rausch often steps out of Rouge to solve problems in other parts of the empire. As a production man, he is second only to tall, handsome Charles E. Sorensen. When a shortage of fabricated steel threatened to halt Willow Run construction, Rausch began fabricating girders in the Rouge foundry, thus kept Willow Run stretching over the ground...
...arrested, they should go on a hunger strike until death. But the ghetto despaired of action: "At 11 in the morning you will begin telling . . . [the exiled Jewish leaders] about the anguish of the Jews in Poland, but at 1 o'clock they will ask you to halt the narrative so they can have lunch. That is a difference which cannot be bridged...