Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada halt the index...
Said Moriarty: "I didn't think we'd get 25 answers. Well, we got a deluge. After we reached 6,500, we called a halt. Kids were climbing in windows, telephoning, crowding at the door. In all, we had at least 7,000 who applied...
Said the Communist Daily Worker: "The Roosevelt spirit came to life on Thursday. . . . Speaking with the authentic voice of American liberalism, Mr. Wallace has called halt to the forces making for war and has thrown down the challenge to the atomaniacs who are screaming for war against the Soviet Union...
Curbed, not Cured. But diabetes, though controllable, is still neither preventable nor curable, and the tendency to diabetes has been found to be hereditary. No sure way is known to halt deterioration of a diabetic's blood vessels, often eventual hardening of his arteries. Sometimes the smallest scratch may still mean gangrene. Though insulin has sent the younger (under 40) diabetic's life expectancy soaring, the overall death rate has actually increased during the insulin era: diabetes in 1920 caused 1.4% of all U.S. deaths, now causes 2.5%.* Most diabeticians still feel much as Banting did when...
...truck ground to a halt on Rio's pleasant Rua Bartholomeu Mitre, children looked up from their play. After the workmen had unloaded the dark, moist sand into the street and gone away, the kids swarmed over the sandpile, pelting each other with sand and small pebbles...