Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dressed in the gaily-colored sports shirts that California males wear, regardless of age, the old men napped and talked with friends. But one 70-year-old, who had refused to halt his croquet match even to meet the Governor, spotted a reporter and seemed determined to put himself on record...
...short preseason and an unsettled personnel situation have handicapped Munro's efforts to install the new style of play, and Wednesday's uninspired loss at Williams convinced the Crimson coach to halt the experiment...
...propose to repeal the innovations of the New Deal, Fair Deal, and New Frontier; they knew that most voters are upset by the events of the past three years, not the past thirty. And they claimed that Johnson and his supporters have shown little initiative in trying to halt inflation, race riots, and the war in Vietnam. Regarding Vietnam, the primaries did not show that most voters want the United States to abandon the struggle against Hanoi and the Vietcong. They merely want what Americans have wanted in the past: quick favorable results...
...primary at the behest of right-wing publisher William Loeb, scored a narrow victory over divided moderate opposition, state party chairman William Johnson and ex-governor Wesley Powell. Thyng opposed civil rights legislation and foreign aid and insisted that increased conventional bombing of military targets in North Vietnam would halt Hanoi's capacity to fight -- and end the war, of course. The ground war in South Vietnam didn't interest him much. The decisive factors in his victory were probably his divided opposition, the low turnout (which often favors extremists whose kooky backers flock to the polls to vote...
Answering the first of U Thant's three points, a call for an end to U.S. bombing in North Viet Nam, Goldberg vowed that the Administration will gladly halt the raids "the moment we are assured" that Hanoi will curb its war effort. As for a mutual reduction of military activity, Thant's second point, Goldberg pointed out that the U.S. has repeatedly urged a supervised, phased withdrawal of "all external forces." On Thant's third point, inclusion of the Viet Cong in peace negotiations, the U.S. ambassador noted that this was not, in President Johnson...