Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First Hurdle. Predominant U.S. military imagination tends to stop at the point of reciprocal nuclear holocaust. Why does the Soviet imagination leap this hurdle? Through continued ignorance of the effects of thermonuclear weapons? This can hardly be the explanation, now that the Russians have had years in which to test and ponder their own weapons. Garthoff suggests two other explanations...
Main cause for this surprising turn seemed to be popular dissatisfaction over Finland's economic slide and the ruling center parties' failure to stop it. Over the past four years Cabinet after Cabinet has fumbled and drifted while inflation soared 32%. High-priced Finnish export industries lost out in vital foreign markets, and unemployment rose last winter to 6% of the labor force. In last week's election, right and left gained at the expense of the center. Many other voters stayed home in disgust. The irondisciplined Communists, while increasing their total popular vote by only...
Long rooted in Japan, Zen is an ancient Chinese technique of mind-breaking discipline aimed at freeing the will. All things bubble along in one interrelated continuum, says Zen. Why try to "grasp" or "stop" them? The real problem is spontaneity: how to "let go" and "go with" the permanent impermanence. The Zen disciple must destroy his ego-consciousness, until his real self calmly floats on the world's confusion like a pingpong ball skimming down a mountain stream...
...Named for an ardent abolitionist editor in Alton, Ill. who was killed by a mob in 1837 when he defied demands to stop publication...
...carabinieri showed up with orders to stop construction; Pastor Cannito rushed to the district judge, who promised to review the case, meantime warned Cannito that if one more stone went up, the pastor would go to jail. By last week, work had been stopped on the half-finished Baptist Church of Sant'Angelo in Villa. Said Manfredi Ronchi, president of the Baptist Union of Italy: "If dark forces prevail, we will have to suffer...