Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders in organized labor's fight to halt final enactment of the bill, Pressman last June submitted an outlined interpretation of the Taft-Hartley law to Congress, in an effort to rally support for an impending Presidential veto...
Unfortunately, this simple story of faith is embellished with cliches. When the heroine "gets into trouble" and the hero volunteers to make an honest woman of her, things really get out of hand. Expert performances by Muriel Smith and William Veasey fail to halt the runaway...
What more, then, in the light of these facts, can we do to assay the relative blame of any one group or factor? And to what purpose? For of far more importance is the question whether there is any single corrective or punitive measure to be taken to halt inflation now. Unfortunately, there seems to be no simple answer, no resolvable black or white dilemma, no precedent in the past; only unpleasant alternatives for a general policy which pose troublesome questions. Would ending European aid to check internal inflation be worth the political, economic, and moral risks Could controls...
Something for the Girls. Above all other sounds came the penetrating squeal of indignant women. No female was too young or too old to be considered a target. Unwary old ladies were conked by water bags. Until the police called a halt, hundreds of women were rumped by electrified canes and battery-powered "jump boxes"-instruments which made them leap like gazelles. Thousands of women-even the tarts who gathered expectantly near hotel exits-were soaked by the Legion's merciless squirt guns, by a truck-mounted spray machine, and even, at times, by streams from the jugs which...
...distance phone saying, "I just wrote you a letter . . . don't open it." Another time, he was about to pull into the driveway of his new home at La Crescenta, Calif, when a car whizzed by at terrific speed. Schroeder tore after it, forced the driver to a halt, and told him: "Look, brother, I got a wife and a kid and a dog . . . don't drive 60 miles an hour past my house again...