Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomat thought it had still to be shown that Russia was the same kind of implacable enemy as Hitler. Official Britain thought the same; at week's end it still stood on the conviction that Russia would halt short of anything that would bring...
...little Uruguay put a new wrinkle in Government-labor relations. Last week the potent General Workers Union (100,000 dues payers) staged a one-day general strike, ostensibly in protest against the rising cost of living (up 25% in a year). Real reason: the Government had long wanted to halt spiraling prices but needed popular support to squelch the expected squawk from businessmen. It was all carefully arranged. Enrique Rodriguez, hard-bitten union boss, was summoned; he agreed to call a 24-hour general strike "in support of the Government." By special union dispensation, there was one exception: because Uruguayans...
...Yorkers often suspect that their complex metropolis floats on quicksand. This week their suspicions were at least partially confirmed. In a move unprecedented in peacetime and more drastic than any ever taken in war, Mayor William D. O'Dwyer suddenly called a halt to all the city's activities except those absolutely essential...
Problems. To clear the way for his enormous new crop of moderately priced houses-built to sell for a maximum of $6,000, rent for no more than $50 a month -Wyatt called for a halt to virtually all other construction. He would need rigid price controls, priorities, ceilings. And he urged passage of the Wagner-Ellender-Taft Bill, which would authorize down payments of as little as 5% and allow a buyer up to 32 years to amortize his mortgage...
Said "Monsieur Helium": "European scientists have been forced to halt their experiments because of the frightful danger of a chain of atomic explosions which may cause the world to fly apart...