Word: halte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Post articles indicate that divisions emerged, mainly between the State and Defense departments, about the desirability of declaring halts in the U.S. bombing of the North?but each approached the idea cynically. When a temporary halt was agreed upon in March 1968, the State Department promptly advised all U.S. embassies that it did not really expect Hanoi to make any reciprocal response and thus the enemy would "free our hand after a short period"; meanwhile the planes could be used to bomb Laos. The Defense Department's McNaughton saw bombing pauses as useful "ratchets," placating public opinion and freeing...
...longer take a full breath, as though they were more than half blocked. Your legs are unsteady. Your pace falters. You stumble on the mossy ground, and trip on the fallen brushwood. Instead of being pleased to be making some headway, escaping perhaps, you are glad only of a halt when you can lean against a tree trunk and catch your breath...
...defining the reach of some Warren Court principles, the new majority may have rendered them virtually inoperative. At the height of Southern civil rights activism in 1965, for example, the Warren Court fashioned the so-called Dombrowski rule, which greatly increased the power of three-judge federal courts to halt allegedly unfair state prosecutions. This term the Burger Court rolled Dombrowski back, barring federal interference except in cases of a prosecutor's blatant bad faith or harassment, or when a state law is "flagrantly and patently violative of express constitutional prohibitions in every clause, sentence and paragraph...
...government's request. District Court Judge Murray I. Gurfein ordered the Times to halt temporarily publication of a series which collates the Pentagon's study of American involvement in Vietnam through the 1968 Tet offensive...
Harrison Salisbury, during his visit to North Vietnam, was told by a foreign Communist who had visited the Pathet Lao headquarters in Sam Neua: "You cannot imagine what it is like in the headquarters of these people. Never is there any halt in the bombing. Not at night. Not by day. One day we were in the cave. The bombing went on and on. The toilet was in another cave only 20 yards away. We could pot leave. We could not even run the 20 yards. It was too dangerous...