Word: halts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baseball practice had run to more than three hours yesterday afternoon, when Norman Shepard finally called a halt and headed for a seat against the far wall of Briggs Cage. As his players trouped slowly outside, Shepard began talking about the team he is trying to put together for the coming spring...
...addition, he pointed out, the plug would halt the emigration of the 12,000 to 15,000 East Germans each month to the West through Berlin...
...fourth quarter, the 5 ft. 11 in. Miss Fogarty fouled out for overguarding. Lacking height and experience without the captain, guards Brenda Baird, Nancy Jacobson, and substitute Judy Friend failed to halt the high-pressure B.C. forwards, who went on to score nine points...
There is insiderable talk in railroad circles these days that only one bold measure can possibly save the New Haven from financial ruin. Theorists suggest that if Mr. Alpert started running special trains for professors travelling to fulfill television commitments, he would halt the deepening slump in his company's passenger revenues...
...fewer than 29 vulnerable bridges, among them the quartermile span over the Elbe River, still only half replaced since its total destruction by Allied bombers in World War II; the railroad has 49 bridges. Destruction of a single bridge or a short stretch of rail or highway would halt a column or train in country commanded by superior forces...