Word: halting
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...closing, as the president drives down that highway along the California coast, grant him moments not only to balance the budget and halt the arms race, but also to relax on the ranch before Sandy Vanocur cuts in and tells him time...
...court, the seven protesters, and an eighth ally picked up later, appeared defiant. Four of those arrested were sentenced to 60 days in jail. The other four face the judge this week, and one of these must answer an added contempt charge for refusing to halt a courtroom harangue...
...Instruments, a maker of electronic sensors that does $1 million in annual business with Japan, was delighted with a seminar on the Japanese use of silence. Confused by the pauses that cropped up when he traveled with Japanese associates, Colbert learned that what strikes an American as an awkward halt in conversation may be a refreshing respite to a Japanese. Said Colbert: "Now I wonder, 'What did they think of all my jabbering...
Beckett's literary representatives in the U.S., after having licensed the ART's production and without having seen the show, demanded that the ART remove Beckett's name, call it an adaptation, or halt the production completely. Throughout the ensuing controversy, the representatives repeatedly addressed public complaints to the press before speaking with ART Artistic Director Robert S. Brustein, failed to contact the ART's legal counted about impending court action until the day before opening night, and--bending over backwards for an imperial opinion--sent the producer of a competing New York production of Endgame to preview...
...reason. As he wrote on, he devoted himself, in Marius' phrase, to building "a wall of pages" to defend his faith in works like A Dialogue Concerning Heresies. He loathed the emerging Luther so profoundly that his theological arguments collapsed into scatological abuse. When his treatises failed to halt the Reformation, More took to burning the treatises of his enemies, and when book burning failed, he turned to body burning, exulting in the fires at the stake that carried Protestant heretics to hell "where the wretches burn forever...