Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...round the long bend outside the rail junction of Trappes, near Versailles. From the signal control box, high above the furrowed crisscross of rails that gleamed dully in the light of a swinging lantern, Signalman André Robert saw fire belching from the locomotive as it ground to a halt. Said he: "You see that man watering the engine-I happen to know he gets 6,000 francs a month. His board and lodging costs him 5,100 a month. He is ashamed to tell his colleagues that he has sent his wife to live with her mother...
...ACCOMPLISHED SCHOLAR AND A REFINED GENTLEMAN, THE PRESIDENT OF LEBANON. YOUR SLURRIOUS REMARKS ARE NOT LESS OBVIOUS BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE SUBTLE. BECAUSE WE DON'T CONTROL VOTES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES NOR DO WE VICTIMIZE THE FANATIC AND THE GULLIBLE TO RAISE HUGE FUNDS . . . WE CAN NEITHER HALT YOUR CLEVER SLANDER NOR HOPE TO CONVERT YOU TO THE SIDE OF THE TRUTH, AND THEREFORE THERE ONLY REMAINS FOR US TO PRAY FOR THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOUL IF IT CAN BE CALLED A SOUL, THIS MASS OF VENOM THAT FILLS YOUR BLACK HEART AND FLOWS FROM YOUR FILTHY...
...labor, and manufacturing costs set basic prices, which, in turn, are marked up as goods flow towards shops and consumers. Business men and farmers are well aware of this. But, with unholy naivete, they still hope to sense the imminent price crash in time to slow down or temporarily halt production, having squeezed enough profits out of exorbitant prices to tide them over. This gamble lay behind the NAM's successful war against the OPA last year, and it is this same gamble that seems dangerously close to being lost in the near future...
Like an efficient hostess, Colombia is preparing well ahead of time for the ninth Pan American Conference, scheduled tentatively for December. A primary move has been to rid Bogotá's streets of beggars, which last week were strangely free of the lame and the halt-result of a preconference roundup...
Perhaps a more potent reason arises from indifference on the part of students--indifference both in tutorial participation, and towards any concerted effort to halt the trend away from the old conference system. Yet old, reliable "student apathy" should hardly be saddled with total responsibility for the scrapping of the full tutorial program. One excuse for this very indifference may be the poor quality of individual instruction that some departments have offered heretofore; another may be pure ignorance of tutorial and its benefits, as a result of lost opportunities to experience such teaching...