Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pursuit of that mission, Vice President Hubert Humphrey last week talked with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in New Delhi, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador at Large Averell Harriman conferred with South Vietnamese officials in Saigon. As the U.S. stretched to its fourth week the halt on bombings of North Viet Nam, the White House also revealed that a U.S. diplomat recently handed a North Vietnamese representative a direct communication, dealing with Washington's peace proposals, to Ho Chi Minh's government...
...Minister Ian Smith was willing to give it a go-around anyway-"to epitomize the spirit of the moment." Back and forth along a Salisbury thoroughfare he pedaled and puffed on his new bicycle. Then, with a wrenching left turn that resembled a sideways Immelmann, he braked to a halt. "My cook-boy has a better bike than this," guffawed Ian. "Good old Smithy!" laughed the office workers who were watching...
Malaria has been sharply curbed by improved drugs and anti-mosquito spraying. Now that schistosomiasis itself can be cured, the next step is to clean up water supplies. Combined cure and prevention might then halt the relentless spread of the fever, which is now close to surpassing malaria as a destroyer of human health in the tropics...
According to one source, Lindsay wanted to call a halt to settlements on the basis of the "understandings." He felt that because of it many inequities, for example wage differentials, of the previous contracts were swept under the table. To avoid this he wanted to arrive at a settlement through open collective bargaining...
Judges Too. Had the decision been made retroactive the court might well have declared that Maryland has done nothing legal in its courtrooms for 98 years. But even without retroactivity, the decision brought to a halt every current criminal case in the entire state. Did it also void every current indictment issued by grand juries that had been forced to swear their belief in God? On Oct. 21, the court said yes in the case of a 16-year-old Seventh-day Adventist charged with rape-thus tossing 3,000 cases back for reindictment, 1,000 of them for retrial...