Word: haltering
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...Once, during a narcotics haul from a drugstore, she wore toreador pants; another time, during the simmering heat of Lnst July, she wore shorts and a halter.) Always it was Maggie who gave the orders: "Put up your hands-I'll kill ya." Then, she would give instructions to her jittery confederates in a calm, soft voice: "Take him to the back room and make him lie down . . . You get the money." Police marked Maggie as one of the coolest dames on the books...
...bareback, halter-type sunsuits may be worn without a jacket or wrap." ¶ "No bare midriff costumes." ¶ "No strapless, low-cut dresses except in clubs or at appropriate social functions." ¶ "No shorts on teen-agers or women...
...India's city streets and country lanes by the millions. It is a statutory crime in India to kill a cow. In 1944 a high-caste Hindu, who accidentally let one of his own cows strangle herself, was forced to roam the streets for three days with a halter around his neck, mooing for food and forgiveness...
After eight seconds of this, the timer sounded his horn. Other cowboys closed in on the bucking sorrel, grabbed the halter and gave rangy (6 ft., 180 Ibs.) Bill Linderman a chance to swing safely to the ground. From the rodeo crowd came the happy hooting and hollering of people who know a good ride when they...
Hollywood's box-office trouble in 1953 expressed itself occasionally in resentment against the halter of censorship and public prudery. The Moon Is Blue, a cheerful little comedy that dares to use such words as "pregnant" and "seduction," became a sort of test case. Although banned by powerful church and civic groups, the picture showed to capacity crowds...