Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stand-in for Weller is Martin (Christopher Collet), a gawky and irritable but predictably literate youth whose clumsy idealism embraces everything from ending the cold war to a metaphorically equivalent attempt to halt the chilly state of nonrecognition between his mother and father. The parents are former leftist activists who once lived for "the movement" and each other, and now find only regret in recalling either ardor. The father (Jeffrey DeMunn) is genial enough -- a mildly successful photographer who deflects his son's attempts to romanticize him -- although his affability fades into meanspirited vehemence at the least challenge to macho...
...Would you halt all efforts to develop nuclear weapons...
...Crimson would have stopped Yale's Richard Huff before he was able to reach out and bat Hall's punt to the ground with four minutes left in the first quarter. Or, at the least, it would have been able to halt Brian Hennen before he raced 35 yards for a touchdown, putting Yale...
...outbreak sent computer scientists scrambling to halt its spread. Russell Brand, who works for California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was one of the first to spot the problem. A quick survey of the lab's 400 machines showed that several computers had already been infected and that the contagion was growing rapidly. By early Thursday, computer operators had shut the system down and begun cleaning out the files. Then, recalls one of Brand's colleagues, "30 seconds after we restarted the system, the infection was back...
...weeks the frenzied activity at Bush for President headquarters in Washington and Dukakis for President headquarters in Boston has come to an abrupt halt every evening at precisely 6:30. Like religious devotees called to prayers, staffers have huddled in small groups around glowing screens for the one hour of the day when their champions go head to head in the campaign's most critical arena: TV's evening news...