Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...unsettled economic conditions in Cambridge, The CRIMSON's policy of distributing the Breakfast. Table Daily free of charge comes to a grinding screeching halt today. Hence-forth, only students whose names adorn subscription lists will find The Crime outside their doors at 8 a.m. The charge is ridiculously nominal--$7 a year delivered, $4 a term. Clients will be joyfully greeted at the Crimson Building, 14 Plympton Street...
...young marine ran up the road from the shore herding two scared North Korean soldiers before him. When he saw Jaskilka, he yelled: "Halt, you bastards!" Then he reported: "I find 'em in a solo skipper. What do I do with them?" Jaskilka told him to take them to the beach and turn them over to the shore party...
...reason for this phenomenon is the fact that there will be an eclipse of the moon at 8:30 p.m. according to several newspaper science editors. Semi-documentary movies now being filmed on the moon are expected to halt operations during the blackout...
...morning they come by the hundreds down the valley, some on the road and some across the paddies. Around 8 o'clock a detachment of South Korean policemen turns up, and an electric change comes over the people. Now, as the police approach and halt them and order them to stand, and then to move on, they leap at every command with a livid and unmistakable fear...
Ever since President Truman restricted housing credit a month ago, the building industry has been in a sweat. The Government was going to halt all house construction, so the rumors went, or at least impose such stiff controls that only Government-financed housing would be able to get materials. In Washington last week moonfaced Thomas P. Coogan, president of the National Association of Home Builders (17,000 members), and his executive committee sat down with federal officials to find out just how hard housing would be hit by rearmament...