Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...requires schoolteachers to allow one minute or more for student volunteers to lead their classes in prayer; students who don't want to participate are graciously allowed to leave the room. Supporters of the law believe it will halt the creep of immorality into American life, and restore traditional American values...
...blue Dodge Aspen, No. 142 274, went by on its way down the jerky, rumbling assembly line as Dodge Main's last car. As it passed, small groups of instrument fitters, engine installers and wheel mounters cleaned up quietly and left. When the line finally came to a halt, nothing dramatic followed, no mass exodus, not even a final silence. Plant officials gathered around the blue Aspen for photographs, then drifted to the windows overlooking the Bismarck Gate to watch television crews clustered around departing workers, striving to capture their final mood-solemnity, or fear, or anger...
...Farmington who make an effort to understand what a candidate represents. Reagan is popular because his ideology is "good old American," the Greek says, with more than a twinkle in his eye. In Farmington, Reagan stands for "the continued stand of the U.S. as an aggressive power and the halt of Communism...
With the Iowa loss, contributions to Kennedy's campaign came to a halt. Of the total $4.6 million raised so far, he has only $200,000 left...
...another possibility was also rising: that the aggression by the men of the Kremlin is causing a global reaction of such force that it may halt or at least squeeze the voracious Soviet bear. Outrage mounted in the U.S., while at the United Nations the U.S.S.R. suffered a humiliating defeat in which it was abandoned by dozens of its Third World friends. By week's end it had become clear that, though the invasion of Afghanistan had stunned the world, the world's reaction had startled the Kremlin. A drive to boycott the Moscow Olympics was gathering momentum, and that...