Word: halt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bolivia's most valuable resource, yet the mines might just as well be in another country for all the prosperity they bring. Since nationalization in 1952, Communist union leaders, backed by a well-armed "workers' militia," have ruled the mines, and no government has dared call a halt to the appalling featherbedding, inefficiency and spiraling wages, which result in losses of more than $6,000,000 annually. No government, that is, except the present military junta headed by Co-Presidents René Barrientos and Alfredo Ovando Candia. Last May the two generals drew up a harsh but workable...
...normally cautious Stephen J. M. Robbins of UCLA, the outgoing president of NSA, led the other main attack from the left. His proposal that NSA back a halt in the bombings regardless of the outcome of negotiations lost by a narrow margin...
...were suspended. Pakistan would be the first to feel the pinch since it is wholly dependent on U.S. spare parts and, unlike India, has no real industrial base for home production of arms. Eventually, the U.S. arms cutoff?in which Britain joined?could ground both sides' jet planes and halt their tanks, reducing the whole affair to an infantry war?but not before weeks have passed...
...party, flatly turned down the President's invitation to be Minister of Public Works in the new Cabinet. "What in the world could I accomplish in the nine months before elections?" he asked. "I'm a serious person." Even the presidential campaign has ground to a halt. Under the seven-year-old Liberal-Conservative coalition, which alternates the presidency every four years, the Liberals are due for office next time around. Four months ago, however, the coalition candidate-Liberal Leader Carlos Lleras Restrepo-withdrew his name after a series of noisy intraparty squabbles. The Liberals have...
...horse-drawn Russian army cart creaked to a halt before the cement cellblock at Auschwitz. Gathering their tattered bundles, a dozen silent men crawled into the wagon, huddled together against the cold, and jolted through the gate into the snowy darkness. Among them was Primo Levi, a young Italian Jew who had been interned for two years at Auschwitz and the nearby slave-labor camp of Buna-Monowitz. In an earlier book, If This Is a Man, Chemist-Sociologist Levi recalled his imprisonment in chilling detail. In this reflective sequel, he tells of his arduous return to life. With jovial...