Word: halte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pockets. Some looked healthy, then toppled suddenly to reveal decayed roots. The disease still rages and Plant Pathologist James Greenlief Brown of the University of Arizona and co-workers told how to save the giant cactus from extinction. Small sores are now cut out of the cacti to halt further infection, badly infected cacti are uprooted by cranes, chopped to bits, treated with germicides and buried...
...Burditt, last year's Freshman captain, was the star of the evening, playing a full 40 minutes and running up a total of 21 points. His center pivots and off-the-backboard play ran the big Jim Olsen and two of his reliefs ragged in their vain efforts to halt the hard-playing Sophomore. Defensively, Burditt held the usually high-scoring Dartmouth center to a lone field goal...
...mainland center, after fierce air and land assaults. Japanese troops swarmed onto the island of Hong Kong itself. The defenders simply kept fighting, in spite of the odds. Chinese troops sniped at the Japanese rear on the mainland, near Pingshan and Shum-chun, but hardly hoped to halt the attack...
...Stories that Hitler had decided to halt in Russia "need not be taken at all seriously....We intend to beat back and smash up the hordes of Hitler till they are completely destroyed...
...outbreak of the Chinese-Japanese war, Thomas declared. We might have asserted our sympathies for the Chinese and boycotted Japanese war materials, as we did; we might have ignored the Asiatic situation and tried appeasement; or we could, as Thomas suggested, have made a definite effort to call a halt to the conflict by conference, by offering trade proposals, and by altering the present unilateral Oriental exclusion act to a multilateral agreement, or even to a quota plan...