Word: haltingly
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...whim in the spring of their junior year to jump off the Weeks Footbridge together.“We were just walking and talking, and we just kind of dared each other—we just did it,” she laughingly says.But the jump would put a halt to Cuse’s rowing career: He dislocated his shoulder when he hit the surface of the water.“We ran to [University Health Services], and they thought we were drunk,” Christiane says. “They asked us how much we had been...
Nationally ranked opponents proved to be a different animal altogether. Although the Crimson managed to stay competitive through the first half, it could not halt the second-half runs of its ranked competitors...
...Updike spoke I looked from him to the crowd, and the scene was evocative of something I couldn't quite place. Then, as he came to his conclusion - "booksellers, defend your lonely forts" - it hit me: a white haired gentleman trying to halt something new because it runs against something established, urging the retrograde upon people who should know more than any others that retrogression is patently not in their interest. Novelist as colonist! A governor speaking to his soldiers. Guard your lonely forts indeed...
...More than a month has passed since Iran failed to meet the Security Council's deadline to halt all uranium enrichment activities until it can resolve concerns expressed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over its program. But with China and Russia firmly resisting moves by the U.S. and its allies to seek a resolution threatening sanctions, or worse, if Iran fails to comply, the U.S. and its allies beat a tactical retreat. They chose instead to improve the incentives offered to Iran in the hope of securing its compliance - or if it remains defiant - of bolstering support...
...regular soldiers fired upon the police barracks in Dili for an hour or more, apparently in retaliation for what may have been an accidental shot from a policeman earlier in the day. The head of the U.N. mission in Dili, Sukehiro Hasegawa, says U.N. advisers negotiated a halt to the shooting, and the Army commander promised the policemen would not be harmed if they surrendered. "We then took these unarmed officers out of the compound and we moved on to the street," Hasegawa told Australia's ABC Radio. "Most unfortunately, about 200 m from the police headquarters there were three...