Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.S.P.C.A. representative made the grand tour of Emerson D, finally coming to a halt at the Podium, where Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger was busily declaiming the faults of the Harding administration...
...laying the bricks) can be completed. But U.S. builders will have to abandon about $14 billion of construction now in the blueprint stage ($4 billion for expensive, non-veteran homes, $10 billion for theaters, office buildings, etc.). Said the Wall St. Journal: "The drastic order, if tightly enforced, will halt what is potentially the largest nonresidential building spree in history...
When Göring returned to his seat in the dock, the other defendants crowded around him to shake his hand, slap his back. Shouted one: "Hermann, halt die Ohren steif!" ("Keep your ears stiff": keep a stiff upper lip). Growled a member of the Russian prosecution staff: "The pig will long be remembered for this speech...
...ARMY CENSORS: who had to pass on the script of The Assassin, because Shaw was in uniform, "After holding it just long enough to halt production that year, it was passed-with one reservation. In the third act the hero is asked where he got the gun with which he assassinated the tyrant. In answer, sardonically, he says, 'From three medical students in exchange for the address of a Spanish whore.' The Army objected to the word 'Spanish,' explaining that Spain was a neutral country whom we did not wish to offend. They suggested...
...ARMY CENSORS: who had to pass on the script of The Assassin, because Shaw was in uniform, "After holding it just long enough to halt production that year, it was passed-with one reservation. In the third act the hero is asked where he got the gun with which he assassinated the tyrant. In answer, sardonically, he says, 'From three medical students in exchange for the address of a Spanish whore.' The Army objected to the word 'Spanish,' explaining that Spain was a neutral country whom we did not wish to offend. They suggested...