Word: stoppings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could enjoy Christmas at peace with all the countries of the world." Antiwar demonstrators in front of the tree raised an antiphonal chant. "Peace now!" said the protesters, who call themselves "the Washington Area Grinch Resistance" after the character in the Dr. Seuss story, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. "Stop the war!" they chorused...
...Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, the superpowers' agreement that radioactive fallout must stop...
...urban parish mold ?but hardly in the traditional church building?is Chicago's Circle Church, which meets in a Teamsters hall. Its founder, David Mains, 33, was a vaguely dissatisfied Baptist minister trying to start a new parish in a polyglot Chicago neighborhood when he chanced to stop by the union hall. "Any time you want to start a church," the local's secretary-treasurer told him, "you can meet here for free. What this neighborhood needs is another goddam Protestant church." Mains' church is Protestant?it has since affiliated with the Evangelical Free Church of America...
...Senate. The 1969 bill that the Senate passed last week is loaded with so many tax reductions?as well as a costly 15% increase in social security benefits?that the President has threatened to veto it. "I intend to use all the powers of the presidency to stop the rise in the cost of living," said Nixon at a press conference shortly before the Senate acted. "If I sign the kind of bill which the Senate is about to pass, I would be reducing taxes for some of the American people and raising prices for all the American people...
...until the trouble blew over, since Indian killing was a matter of little concern to the white community. But at that time, it happened that President Taft was making a cross-country tour, followed by a bored and weary press corps looking for a story to break the whistle-stop monotony. They found what they wanted in Riverside, Calif...