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Word: halts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the U.S. frontier is that Jesse James is "a frightful female." He is therefore rather astonished when several improperly dressed individuals with bright paint daubed on their faces begin to circle the stagecoach on horseback, uttering unmannerly cries in a foreign language. Outraged, he orders the carriage to halt, stomps out to give the Indian chief-whom quite by accident he disarms and captures-a severe dressing down. "My dear fellow, this coach was traveling at a legal rate of speed on a public highway. If you don't desist, I shall protest to the authorities." The chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...muscular and quick-witted six-footer, was ready for them. Last August he had formed a government shorn of the two Communist ministers. He instituted a currency reform that allowed the Laotian kip to find its normal level of 80 to the dollar, and he brought a halt to the scandalous abuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: The Two Motors | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...oscilllations of the suspended head came to a halt, I realized that the interview was over. I thanked Professor Quaeritor, and upon leaving he rubbed his spider, "Don't call me Quaeritor, the natives...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Heart of Darkness | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

...threat presumably was prompted by statements of some U.S. congressmen that the State Department should act to halt the executions which have followed the fall of President Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Castro Warns Against Interference In Execution of Batista Followers; Mikoyan Sees Summit Conference | 1/16/1959 | See Source »

...expand the College and financial pressures--may, in fact, limit deconversion to a few scattered suites. As the Programs puts it in another booklet, "The College has been growing steadily for generations. It would be a radical and untimely departure were this process now to come to a complete halt, particularly in view of the coming pressures from an increased population of college...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: 'Cramped Quarters' | 1/15/1959 | See Source »

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