Word: halts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 13--Indonesia's army chief ordered a halt tonight to the seizure of Dutch businesses and threatened severe punishment if his orders were disobeyed. The effect of his decree remained to be seen...
BERLIN, Dec. 11--Communist East Germany today decreed drastic laws to halt the mass westward flight of refugees crippling the worker force...
...private joke with their "tin" anniversary. Parlaying the secrecy, London's Sunday Express knowingly surmised that the royal family was shocked and dismayed when Princess Margaret skipped out for a theater party, failed to appear at the palace festivities until just before they ground to a midnight halt...
...patient was wheeled back to his room, the uncontrollable tremor, the involuntary bending of the arm and turning in of the thumb on the right side had disappeared. In a few months, both patients will return to Iowa City for treatment of the ansa lenticularis on the right, to halt the Parkinsonian movements of their left sides...
...French as it was then spoken"-not as courtiers of the past had spoken it. They changed the monotonous, end-of-line rhyme, throwing the stress not where elegance demanded it, but "where the sense lay." Where Verlaine used the old end rhyme, he made it run rather than halt-and how hauntingly and simply he did it is seen in the opening stanza of one of his loveliest poems, evoking an autumnal mood to the sobs of violins...