Word: haltering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...postponed a showdown in his Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the biggest question this Congress has had before it: The Neutrality law, the rules of behavior for the President of the U. S. should war break out abroad. The House had sent up the Bloom bill putting half a halter on the President, obliging him to embargo U. S. "arms & ammunition" (but not other material such as planes, motors, trucks, oil, cotton) to belligerents (TIME, July 10). Reason Senator Pittman delayed seemed to be that he was not at all sure of being able to rid the President of that...
...evening last week the House leadership was weary after a running fight with advocates of repealing the Neutrality act entirely, returning U. S. war policy to due process of international law. This plan was beaten, but then Ohio's Republican Representative Vorys proposed keeping at least half a halter on Franklin Roosevelt, obliging him to embargo at least "lethal weapons." To the House leadership's shocked surprise, this proposal carried. But the vote was only 159 to 157 in committee-of-the-whole. Mr. Roosevelt's men confidently expected to beat it next day in the final...
...kind-hearted French-speaking Cajun alligator hunter, somewhere near the Gulf. When the convict sees his first alligator, and understands that it is to be killed, he thinks, "Well, maybe a mule standing in a lot looks big to a man that never walked up to one with a halter before." With that he jumps overboard, catches the alligator around the neck, stabs it. The convict becomes a local hero...
Besides complete coverage of the Rabbits' athletic activities, an editorial page, and a news story, there were two gossip columns, one concerned with sports entitled "Carrots and Lettuce" and Halter Hinchell's column which spared no facts in the Bunnie's private lives...
Plodding wearily along at a snail's pace on the road that winds through Spanish hill-country were two travellers. Dust-caked and grimy, leading by the halter an aged nag, heads bowed, and pace ambling, the pair presented a picture of human dejection in the golden rays of the afternoon sun on that highway leading from the nation's capital to the borders of France. It was obvious that some blows had been dealt the men's fortunes, for every movement in their demeanor was a sign of discouragement, disappointment, defeat...