Word: halt
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...United Nations. Reagan told the Irish parliament that "if discussions on reaffirming the principle .. . will bring the Soviet Union to negotiate agreements which will give concrete new meaning to that principle, we will gladly enter into such discussions." The President also declared that he was "prepared to halt, and even reverse" the deployment of U.S.-built intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe if the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could reach a satisfactory arms-control agreement. Those offers were quickly dismissed by the official Soviet news agency TASS as "glib" and "hypocritical." On the Normandy beachhead, Reagan tried again. Said...
...journey came to a halt when a mudslide trapped the bus he was traveling in and killed eight people in the bus traveling just a few miles ahead of them. The groups spent 36 hours excavating the bus and then carried the bodies back. But after arriving in his room, Adams was prevented from sleeping by an earthquake. "I had never been in an earthquake before," he says. In yet another adventure with nature. Adams was trapped in a small village for two weeks by a mudslide that cut him off from the only road in and out of town...
...think of it a decade and a half later, is the peculiar disproportion between means and ends, between what we then called our "militancy" and the unprepossessing, almost trivial nature of our demands. We shut down Harvard University, but our initial demands--the abolition of ROTC and a halt to evictions in Harvard-owned housing ("Smash ROTC, No Expansion!" Remember?)--touched only peripheral, almost tangential concerns of Harvard as a university. Today they seem virtually irrelevant. ROTC was not crucial to the war effort and most of us realized that; Officer Candidate School could easily have trained all the officers...
Some 13 years later, with student riots the thing of nostalgia pieces, and hardly the overbearing threat that could effectively halt classes and occupy University Hall, Harvard's Messiah seems remarkable mortal--mortal enough to fuel occasional speculation over his successor...
...looked like it was under siege as 6,000 army troops in full battle dress manned positions at key intersections in and around the city and guarded the airport and harbor. In the worst riot areas, a nighttime curfew was in effect, but it had come too late to halt the violence by roving bands of rioters, who had killed and maimed and burned. Hardest hit were the industrial towns of Bhiwandi, Thane and Kalyan, northeast of Bombay, where thousands of huts belonging to low-income workers lay in ashes. The government hastily set up temporary camps for the homeless...