Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of them it was only a temporary halt in the restless, interminable march of the U.S. war dead, ordered by congressional action last May (TIME, May 27). In October the services would begin polling the next of kin of men buried in seven Hawaiian cemeteries and in Belgium, would prepare to ship them home, on request, for still another burial in national or private cemeteries...
Martha Hodge, actress-daughter of the late Actor William Hodge (The Man from Home), took a moonlight dip at splashy Saratoga Springs without giving it even a first thought. In the small hours, after a long halt at a nightclub table, a couple of male acquaintances had taken to scuffling over the question of whether to go to bed early or late. Miss Hodge stepped into it and shortly was pushed into one of the fanciest ornamental fountain pools in all Saratoga...
...Today, the problem of Germany is our problem, the weakness of Germany our weakness, the sin of Germany our sin, and the future of Germany our future. We must call a halt to this landslide to a low level of Godless living . . . we must leave the worship of false gods...
...hearing went on it became even more obvious that it could accomplish nothing, in any practical sense. The statute of limitations had run: even if a crime had been committed nobody involved could be indicted. When the Congressman had been well mussed Mead called a halt...
...noon Frank Anderson called a halt. His shirt and overalls were mushy with sweat, dust and chaff. At the house plump, jolly Zula Anderson had everything on the table the minute the men finished at the back-porch sink-fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, tomatoes, beets, bread & butter, milk, iced...