Word: halte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aegean islands 300,000 people forestall starvation by eating herbs, while Nazi objections to Red Cross shipments of Canadian wheat in Swedish ships are resolved. Thousands of islanders, their skin hanging in folds about their hunger-dulled eyes, have fled to Turkey in small boats. "Trying to halt them," said the mayor of Chios, "is like trying to drive clouds against a strong wind...
...river ap proached, eating through forests, moving on the city. Mauna Loa had not been so angry since 1881. But warplanes slipped their bombs into the tubes of lava, collapsed them, stifled the flow. Eleven miles from the city's center, the river of lava smoked to a halt...
...organizations as the Alumni Association and the Student Council itself will not be forced to change their whole setup, as they would if the class divisions disappeared. But more important, such a plan will help Freshmen to make more friends among men of their own age and class, and halt any further segregation of a college whose social and intellectual cohesion is already torn apart by its great number of students and their widely divergent interests...
...activity in the Square will come to a halt this afternoon at 3:45 o'clock when the massed formations of 1600 Harvard men in uniform parade through the Johnson Gate on their way to Soldiers Field for the largest full-dress review in the recent history of Harvard's military and naval units. In keeping with the grandiose scale of this affair the reviewing party will include such notables as President James B. Conant, the Governor of the Common wealth, and the commanding officers of the First Corps Area and the First Naval District...
Holy Cross benched its ablest pitcher, Ernie Ford, and turned to curve-ball specialist Ed Murphy to halt the Crimson last Saturday at Worcester. Murphy not only stopped the Varsity nine cold but shut them out for the first time this year with a decisive 9-0 victory...