Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...message asked Congress to "intervene and halt any further hearings in this case until a full and immediate investigation into prosecutorial misconduct can be made...
...stop the march-to no immediate avail. At the border, the Libyans destroyed benches and tables in the customs building, calling their vandalism "a symbolic action to remove the artificial boundaries between our two countries." They then bypassed a sizable roadblock at Mersa Matruh and ignored orders to halt...
...glut even a market that sometimes seems insatiable. On the other hand there is the sudden appearance of a new and stricter legal definition of obscenity by the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, July 2). Though the boundaries of the court's ruling are still unclear, they could well halt the skin trade's race to publish ever more explicit turn-ons. If forced to retreat, the magazines might simply succeed in boring their audience...
...paper had printed a right-wing ad that the government considered seditious. Allende then overreacted to a bizarre little incident in which Army Chief Carlos Prats fired two shots at a woman motorist who had stuck out her tongue at him. Forcing the woman's car to a halt, the general pressed his revolver against her head and demanded an apology. When angry pedestrians let the air out of the tires of his car, Prats beat a hasty retreat in a taxi. Allende used the "provocation" to wrap a "zone of emergency" around Santiago province. Some civil liberties were...
...although France has conducted nuclear tests in the region of Mururoa yearly since 1966, it has never encountered the current level of outrage. The New Zealand government ordered a frigate, with a cabinet minister aboard, to steam into the test area. The World Health Organization called for an immediate halt to the French plans. Australian trade unions refused to handle French imports, from Camembert cheese to cosmetics; they also let 1,000 bags of mail from France pile up in the post offices. Somewhat ghoulishly, the girls at a Melbourne high school sent an invitation in French to President Pompidou...