Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Candidate Richard Nixon promised last year "to halt the inflationary trend in our fiscal and monetary policies, to check the drift that defeats our purposes and steadily narrows our range of choices." Now that he has begun to move cautiously against the inflation that last month shaved another half-cent of value from the already shrunken consumer dollar, Nixon has found his range of choices narrowed by both economic factors and a strong-willed Congress...
Suddenly a police car sped up to the crowd and jerked to a halt. A plump, middle-aged sergeant hopped out with his gun drawn and ran toward the crowd. Then another car drove up. Two officers got out and started running in the same direction. Then came two motorcycles, sirens wailing, two more cars, another motorcycle. Ten or fifteen policemen were running down the alley that the policemen disappeared into...
...students' resentment over the court orders parallels that felt in the early 1900s by labor leaders, who were repeatedly stymied by management's use of the injunction to halt strikes. In 1932, Congress finally came to labor's aid with the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which prohibited federal courts from issuing an injunction to stop peaceful, nondisruptive strikes...
...even before De Gaulle fell last week, the Franco-American freeze was thawing. The U.S. bombing halt in North Viet Nam, coupled with the opening of peace talks in Paris, eased one major cause of tension. De Gaulle's own position lost some of its majesty, both within and outside France, after the student riots a year ago and the autumn monetary crisis that almost forced devaluation of the franc. De Gaulle had courted the Soviet Union during a triumphal tour in 1966 and had implicitly excluded the U.S. from his often-stated vision of a Europe "united from...
...must be centers of criticism. If you turn the university into a trade school or a branch of the knowledge industry, there is no real possibility of maintaining it as a center. The parts of a multiversity have no center." To help broaden specialists' minds, Hutchins proposes to halt university expansion whenever enrollment exceeds a few thousand. Instead, he would build smaller universities in which all major disciplines would be in touch, giving both scholars and students badly needed interdisciplinary studies. Many campuses have weighed a curb on secret war research, and last week M.I.T. began turning away...