Word: halts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart Jackson Elliott could see, the pension wave had lesser crests, and in California spring tide seemed at hand. California the wonderland, California the rugged and golden, lies at that edge of the continent where the migrations that made the nation ended. There the last vanguard of pioneers halted and the rearguard of sick, halt, lame, blind, crooked and crazy have caught up. It is a home of saints and scoundrels, heroines and houris. There since Depression I has grown up a strange society in which men born in the great open spaces and hardshells with their feet two generations...
...brigades' arrival at Madrid in November 1936 and their stubborn resistance in the Casa del Campo outside Madrid, probably gave Leftist General José Miaja enough time to organize his defenses to prevent the city's capture by Generalissimo Francisco Franco. They appeared later in the successful halt of the Rightist Jarama River drive and in the panicky rout of Italian Fascist troops in the Battle of Brihuega, on the Guadalajara Road...
...working himself up to this breakdown, Orator Göring cried: "We want peace but Versailles took peace out of the world! . . . We can always shoot but we never get jittery . . . God is kind! . . . Our air force justifies unshakable confidence in victory and our fortifications in the west will halt any power under...
Forest fires on mountain slopes in the Leftist-held Ebro River salient last week brought a Rightist offensive to a sudden halt, resulted in the 26-month-old war's quietest week. Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself commanded during the early part of this drive. Mentioned casually, however, last week in a Rightist communiqué as the new commander of the Ebro offensive was able, forceful General Juan Yague, who directed the successful Rightist offensive last spring. This meant that General Yague, relieved of his command-rumored even to have been put in jail-because of an "indiscreet" speech...
...life in a train crash in more than two years. Then one morning a closing car door caught a woman's hand as a local train started to move out of an east-side station. An excited passenger jerked an emergency stop lever. The train jammed to a halt. Into the rear of it banged another local that was coasting into the station. Toll: two deaths, injuries...