Word: haltingly
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...relinquish his nuclear arsenal. The WFP is trying to provide for 6.5 million people in the country, says Richard Ragan, head of the WFP's relief operation in North Korea. But donations from governments have withered by more than half since 2002, and the agency will be forced to halt food supplies to nearly 3.6 million people this month, Ragan tells TIME by phone from Pyongyang. "We are inching back toward the precipice," he says...
...entire scheme falls apart with an inconsistent running back comprising one of the two key roles, which, of course, Dawson was not. The sophomore was held below 100 yards rushing just twice—by Cornell and Dartmouth—and only the Big Red was able to halt his inevitable march towards the end zone with the aid of an injury sustained mid-game...
From meeting with faculty to science planning to Allston development, Hyman kept the ball rolling, helping prevent the University—and Summers’ presidency—from screeching to a halt...
...Nabokov’s professional racing career came to a halt after a chance incident in Italy, when he asked a tenor and his wife if he could keep his car in their yard the night before a race at a nearby track. Come morning, the couple told him that he could take back his car—but only if he would abandon racing to devote himself entirely to opera...
...called a halt just short of 1,000 words. But Macalister's A Dictionary of Maori Words in New Zealand English, published last month by Oxford University Press, suggests the flow of Maori into English won't be stopping anytime soon. Kiwi English is not just annexing Maori words, from Pakeha (European) to whanau (extended family). It's giving them English inflections (moko-ed for tattooed; haka-ing for dancing), and playing with them to create hybrids like maka-chilly (from makariri, cold). "You can't get far these days without having to use a Maori word," says Haami Piripi...