Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese, who seem genuinely afraid of Soviet military power, suspect that the Russians might seize on a breakdown in the talks as a pretext for launching a military strike against China. A war scare also serves Mao's domestic interests. Though 15 months ago he called an official halt to the disruptive Cultural Revolution that had brought the country to the verge of civil war, China remains wracked by internal dissension and severe economic troubles. Mao undoubtedly hopes that China's xenophobic feelings about the Russians will serve as a unifying force in the country. He is also...
...best a mildly encouraging sign that the rate of price increases is leveling off. Four prominent Manhattan clothing manufacturers joined last week in a startling call for federal wage-price controls. Said Lawrence S. Phillips, president of shirt-making Phillips-Van Heusen: "Unfortunately, all other efforts to halt inflation have failed. Unless some action is taken immediately, a monetary and social situation rivaling that of Depression days is inevitable." President Michael Daroff of Botany Industries, Richard Schwartz of Jonathan Logan, Inc., and Alfred Slaner of Kayser-Roth gloomily agreed with Phillips that consumers are showing growing resistance to clothing price...
...when Gallagher rushed in from Roda's blind side on a play to crumple him to the ground and caused a fumble with 60 seconds left, all hope for a tie came to a screeching halt...
Behind SALT is the urgency to achieve a halt in the development of nuclear weaponry before one side or the other achieves another technical breakthrough that will start a new spiral in the arms race. Both are now working on MIRVs, missiles carrying clusters of independently targetable warheads, which would multiply the destructive ability of each ICBM. The U.S. is probably ahead in MIRV development and could deploy the weapon by late 1970. In ABM, on the other hand, the Soviet Union has ringed Moscow with some missiles, while the U.S. is still in the research stage on its Safeguard...
...risks in seeking an agreement seem to be manageable, insurable and reasonable ones to run. They seem less dangerous than the risk of open-ended arms competition." Some members of Congress have also urged immediate cutbacks. Senator Edmund Muskie last week reiterated a demand for a six-month unilateral halt in testing. Meanwhile Senator Edward Brooke has collected 42 Senate signatures on a resolution urging a mutual test halt...