Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist bloc." (Baltimore Sun, Oct. 14, 1963.) Similarly, the Christian Science Monitor reported on Jan. 7, 1963, that "arms supplied to the Vietcong from outside the country have been negligible." The New York Times made a similar statement on Feb. 16, 1964: 'The bombing of North Vietnam could not halt the flow of supplies to the Viet Cong, particularly since most of their weapons are captured from the South Vietnamese Army...
...regulations of a government-dominated economy, they rarely sound off in public, disguise their occasional criticisms as quiet suggestions. Now, angrily and in public, they are issuing a warning to Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri's socialism-bent government. Cut taxes or see India's industrial growth halt completely...
Speaking at a rally sponsored by the Ad Hoc Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Moore said that the United States should not only halt the present bombings but should emulate the example of Gen. DeGaulle in Algeria and withdraw entirely from Vietnam...
...Commended. As the cur tain of grief descended over Britain, the nation's life slowed almost to a halt. "In view of the nation's concern about Sir Winston Churchill," Prime Minister Harold Wilson postponed a major House of Commons speech and an economic report to the nation on TV, also put off an important round of talks with West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. Britain was to have commemorated the 700th anniversary of the first Parliament last week, but in deference to Parliament's greatest son. Lords and Commons agreed to put off the ceremonies...
...Holding onto them is quite another matter. On a basketball court, where a simple shout of "Contact!" is enough to bring everything to a halt these days, or on a crowded dance floor, where couples scrambling among the fruggers' feet have become as essential as crepe paper at any successful prom, lost lenses simply disappear. Otherwise, they get wafted down drains, into swimming pools, off ski slopes. They are lodged between the pages of books, the coils of radiators, the seats in movie houses, never again to be seen or to afford sight. Moreover, the new lenses easily...