Word: halte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your news article entitled "Fund Drive Arms to Halt J.F.K. Library" and the associated News Analysis by Andrew P. Corty in your issue of January 21 created an erroneous impression of the position that Neighborhood Ten Association takes on the Kennedy Library Association remains open minded about the outcome of the impending Environmental Impact Study. We trust it will be complete and objective and our efforts will be directed to that end. Our often stated goal is to assure, prior to construction, that the ultimate impact of the project on Cambridge is livable and manageable. We hope that many groups...
From the start of the ceasefire, the four-nation International Commission of Control and Supervision has been powerless to halt the hostilities. The Canadian members of the ices were so frustrated by the commission's impotence that they quit last August. Upon leaving Saigon, Canada's chief delegate, Michel Gauvin, remarked: "We were sent to observe a peace and came to watch a war." Since then the commission's other members, Poland, Hungary, Indonesia and Iran (which replaced Canada), have displayed no enthusiasm for looking too closely at anything...
When Tanaka's car turned into the hotel drive way, the students pummeled its roof and windows with their fists. Other vehicles in the motorcade were forced to a halt and the demonstrators - mainly in their teens - tried to open each car. One of those mobbed, despite his civil service uniform, was the Thai government's own Secretary-General Choosak Watanaronchai, who saved himself by shouting "I'm a Thai!" Other bands of students broke four windows in the city's most prominent Japanese department store (the Thai Daimaru) and threw a small plastique bomb...
...halt in recruiting would paralyze the athletic program at Long Beach or almost any school. Yet in recent months coaches have warned that, as pressures to win increase, recruiting is getting dangerously out of control. "You're out there trying to sell yourself and the facts about your school," says Texas Football Coach Darrell Royal, "and the guy ain't hearing a word you're saying. All he's wondering is when you're going to start talking about money...
...much of what might have been cynical humor ten years ago come across as a collection of worn-out retreads now. The old man recommends selling the whole country to Japan, because "they're going to get it anyway." He urges a halt to the spinning of the earth, so that "we all won't be so dizzy and nauseous." And he recites a poem that looking back on it I enjoyed...