Word: halte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stockmarket put on a strong-man act last week. Defying the worst flood of news since the fall of France (when equities nose-dived more than 30 points), the venerable Dow-Jones industrial averages rose $1.09 while the British were fleeing toward Alexandria, 76? more when Auchinleck began to halt the Rommel rush on Friday. Stocks went up $1.04 the day Hitler captured Sevastopol: 67? in the two days it took his African troops to capture Matr...
...Zirbel collected 31,000 lb. of scrap iron in one week, which built up Uncle Sam's muscles as well as his own. So successful was the Boy Scout paper-salvage effort alone (300,000,000 lb.) that WPB had to beg them last week to call a halt to their "magnificent job." The Government asked them to pick up something else for a while-rubber, for instance...
Debs are almost unifromly 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 partics by next year, you'll get to know "the right girls" and be eligible for the stag lines...
...harvest was bountiful in Scotland last autumn-134,000,000 hips weighing 200 tons were gathered before the Ministry of Health cried halt and further tons of hips were collected in England, so that this spring British druggists are marketing 600,000 bottles of hip syrup. Hips* are the soft scarlet, hairy fruit of the rose...
There is MacArthur quietly picking Bataan as the ground on which to halt the Japanese, then calmly leading the struggle, calmly refusing to move for Japanese bombs, calmly leaving with his wife and four-year-old son in the high-powered speed boat (which had been his idea for Philippine naval defense), calmly waiting at the rendezvous for the planes from Australia, which were too few and almost too late. It is the picture of a hero who is brilliant, courageous, a great leader of soldiers, but also a little overambitious, a little garish, a little rhetorical...