Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...afternoon Congressional from Washington bumped to a halt in a gloomy cavern beneath Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station one evening last week. Amid the crowd that surged out onto the platform, indistinguishable from his fellow passengers except for an extra bit of height (6 ft. 1 in.) and an extra gleam in his eye, walked a middle-aged man with a battered suitcase in his hand and his coat collar turned up against the wintry drafts. As he made his way through the station to the snow-blanketed street to hail himself a taxi, nobody recognized...
...Bristol Britannia with the Cubana Airlines markings bobbed to a halt on the runway of Ottawa's Uplands Airport, and out stepped ten Cubans who had flown nonstop from Havana. At their head stood Regino Botí, Fidel Castro's U.S.-hating Minister of Economy. They had come to Canada, proclaimed Botí, with $150 million "to find out what we can purchase." His face abeam, Trade Minister George Hees told newsmen: "You can't do business with better businessmen anywhere...
Traffic conditions localy mirrored those all over the city. The slight grade of Boylston St. proved too much for two huge semi-trailers and an MTA bus. The three blocked up traffic for nearly an hour. After sliding to a halt in front of one of the area's gas stations, two ladies attacked with their shoes a service station attendant who told them to move because they were blocking the entrance...
...around everywhere, once squeezed through her father's legs to steal the scene from a Lyndon Johnson-Kennedy photo session. "Daddy," said she, "tie my shoes, please." Asked if she would call her baby brother "Jack," she replied: "No. His name is John." But soon Kennedy called a halt to most of the press courting of Caroline: "I think she's been photographed enough-it's time we retired...
...conciliator rather than an innovator, Holyoake will maintain most of the Labor Party's existing welfare programs, but will call a halt to further nationalization in an effort to stimulate the renewed growth of private enterprise. With Labor's leadership either enfeebled by age or shot down in the election returns, the National Party is preparing for a long stay in power...