Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Halt served one term in the Senate, was defeated in 1940. Now 43, he devotes most of his time to speaking and lecturing, has served five terms in the West Virginia House of Delegates...
Gangster films, the Municipal Council decreed last week, could no longer be shown in Kuala Lumpur, the Malay capital. The Malaya sector of the Communist campaign for Southeast Asia was heating up so rapidly that the Kuala Lumpur city fathers decided that they had best call a halt on Hollywood terror...
...peace, the West's ability to act in unison, was demonstrated also in the Palestine truce. Peace had been endangered and the United Nations disgraced by the failure to halt the Palestine war. Finally, U.S. and British policies were brought into line. In a matter of hours after that, the prestige and potency of U.N. returned last week, and the Arabs followed the Jews in accepting a truce in Palestine (see below). The truce in Palestine, the B-29s in Britain, were signs of the same solidarity...
...looked at the referee as if to say: "Aren't you gonna stop it?' What was holding Beau up? None of the 12,952 spectators knew. Getting no help from the referee, Ike reluctantly went back to pounding his victim. When Referee Charley Daggert finally called a halt, the beaten Beau was still propped up in the corner. He could still claim that he had never been counted...
...Soviets do their skinning? Simple. You turn back 27 freight trains loaded with coal for Berlin factories, because the "cars are defective." You halt passenger traffic because "the stations are congested." Then you close the Autobahn bridge across the Elbe for "urgent repairs." Now, on the one precarious road to the West still open to the Western powers, jeeps and buses bounce over ten miles of a cobblestone detour, push onto a creeping, motorless ferry. When someone asks the German policeman aboard how the bridge repairs are coming, he grins: "You don't think they are real...