Word: halts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...time to call a halt to our headlong rush into war. To help England further, without pledging ourselves to dedicate a generation to the bloody task of invading Germany, would be dishonest. We must stop sending bombers and ships and guns to England unless we are prepared to follow them up with men. Now that there is something like a deadlock, President Roosevelt, if he means to make good his pledge to keep America out of war, should throw his weight in favor of the best possible peace with Germany--yes, even a peace leaving Hitler in control...
...Angeles, leading his company of marines in columns of fives, Captain James Roosevelt marched them to the place where the battalion was lining up. At the proper spot he barked: "Halt! Left Face!" Executing the order with precision, they came to a halt exactly in the battalion front, buttocks toward the major in command, faces to a concrete wall. Quickly Captain Jimmy, summoning all his military experience (until Aug. 1: three weeks of active duty at Quantico, Va.; one night a week drill, several hours a week of administrative duty), squeaked "About Face," while seasoned sergeants winced, looked down their...
Neither of the big engine companies has yet had a chance to start and finish production on an order without interruptions from Washington. Service technicians and desk mechanics continually cook up new gadgets, halt production to get their pet changes made (one company had to make as many as 90 changes on a single engine in a single month). Many such changes make sense. A few are necessary. All delay production. Manufacturers understand that some mid-production alterations in both engines and planes are required. What grinds their gears is that responsible officers in the Army Air Corps...
...home bases. Other Protestants then raised more than $2,000,000 to keep the missions going, returned them to the German societies after the war. Today's problem is far larger. Beyond the need for immediate aid, U. S. churchmen face the prospect that an Axis victory would halt missionary work in colonies Germany may then dominate. Hitler believes in short shrift for missionaries. Said he in Mein Kampf: "Mission education in Africa is based on the absurd notion of making lawyers out of half apes...
Driving through London last week His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, handsomest member of the Royal Family, came dutifully to a halt in front of a rope stretched across a street. From it hung a sign which in the past fortnight has become a familiar sight in many parts of the city: "DANGER-UNEXPLODED BOMB...