Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was some speculation that he might fly directly to Peking after his meeting with Hirohito. Or that he might name a woman to the Supreme Court. Or that he might yield to protests and cancel a massive nuclear test at Amchitka Island in the Aleutians; Congress last week approved a measure putting the decision to blast or not to blast directly in Nixon's hands...
Some 500 hostile young people, many stoned and some flashing knives, rip up fences and storm a stage at the Newport Jazz Festival, silencing the music for nearly 40,000 listeners and causing officials to cancel a scheduled folk festival and a rock opera. The heroin death of one young man and the open drug dealing of others at a Detroit rock concert lead Michigan Governor William Milliken to demand the end of all such festivals in that state...
...admiral, Morrison got a master's degree from UCLA before beginning to intone his long, theatrical poems to dark, eerie, thundering rock. His orgiastic performances and his command, "Come on, baby, light my fire," turned on teeny-boppers by the millions, but his mood was often more apocalyptic: "Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection!" he protested against the ravaging of the earth...
Daniel Steiner '54, General Counsel to the University, said that the crackdown is an effort to protect students from unreliable, fly-by-night charterers, who sometimes use little-known airlines or cancel flights at the last moment...
...when they are talking about bang-bang and the whites are talking about rat-tat-tat-tat-tat and boom-boom-boom." One of the most powerful arguments that black leaders quite properly use to discourage rioting is that violence would only bring about a renewed right-wing backlash, cancel much of the move toward moderation that was evident in last November's elections, and divert attention from the call for social reform to the demand for law-and-order...