Word: halts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...angry across the Great Plains. To western Kansans, this was it-a sure-enough "blue norther,"* the season's first. Soon screaming winds, as high as 80 miles an hour, lashed the wheatfields with blinding snow and churned up great white drifts. Transcontinental trains ground to a halt; ice-sheathed communication lines sagged and snapped. Thousands of grubbing cattle, trapped in the snow, froze to death on the hoof...
Gaps opened between the fast-moving marines and the stalled 27th. The whole attack ground to a halt...
...week ago, a large proportion of the undergraduates who live at Houses fed by the Kirkland central kitchen were struck down by dysentery. The victims rose as a man and demanded that something be done. Immediately, the University Sanitation Office offered a two-point program to halt further outbreaks. The first part of this program is `1unenforcable; the second is no preventive...
...last night Art Valpey called a halt to the Varsity's wind sprints, his squad headed for Dillon Field House, line Coach Butch Jordan shouted "Get a good night's sleep," and Harvard's preparations for Princeton were finished...
Putnam was still mulling over his lineup last night, trying to put together a winning combination to halt the highly touted Annex sailors...