Word: halte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...machine rolled on from beginning to end without a halt. And just as they always did in my day, the crowd began its chanting countdown a full 60 seconds before the game ended. (At Harvard, we usually wait until the last five). When the gun went off, the 'Bama behemoths lifted Bear onto their mountainous shoulders and paraded him across the field as fans massed around him and finally blocked him from my vision...
...created a huge national debt, and after six years of prosperity and abundance, a time of economic austerity has arrived. Tourism has diminished considerably, building construction has slowed almost to a halt, and a large war tax has been levied on every family. The effect of this economic depression will be felt keenly by all: businessmen, professionals, and even the workers in the kibbutzim. This situation, too, has stunned the nation...
...indeed may be avoided. He said that there is "a possibility of some change" in the Arab strategy of reducing the flow of oil to Europe, Japan and other nations. Indeed, Iraq is already pumping oil at full capacity again. Yet the Arabs remain firm in their decision to halt all oil shipments to the U.S. in retaliation for its support of Israel...
...East Germans escaped to the West, 20% more than the total for the same period in 1972. This year, the number of escapees is expected to reach 6,500, despite one of the world's most formidable man-made barriers, the Berlin Wall, erected twelve years ago to halt the drain. Last week East Germany's doctrinaire Communist government took steps to stanch some of the flow by staging the finale of a show trial of three West German people-smugglers in an East Berlin courtroom...
...Ordered public utilities and other companies to halt any plans for shifting away from coal and into oil as a fuel...