Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complete bombing halt. "As President I would stop the bombing of the North as a risk of key importance," said Humphrey...
...Roth was out with the leaders early and survived a midrace slump to remain in good position. Close behind were John Heyburn and Howie Foye. Heyburn has never been sidelined by injury in two years of running, and a wasp sting that swelled his hand painfully did not stop him Saturday...
...PARIS PEACE TALKS have been dragging on now for almost four months, and despite Harriman's hopeful "straws in the wind," we have nothing to show for it. President Johnson has refused to stop the bombing, and until it is stopped, the North Vietnamese are unwilling to discuss more fundamental issues...
...revoke an antisubversion clause in the penal code. The government promised to re-examine the law, but otherwise remained aloof. Mexico's press blamed the riots on "Communist agitators," but the demonstrations seemed more to reflect the influence of an activist New Left. Increasingly, the students threatened to "stop the Olympics," and directed their attacks against Diaz Ordaz himself...
...Theater's pieces are exercises in the manipulation of crowd emotions. Whatever does not actively irritate is designed to produce a kind of mesmeric communal hysteria. One piece finds Julian Beck sitting cross-legged in the middle of the stage. In a voice of clerical monotony, he says "Stop the wars, now." Cast members in the aisles shout back in unison, "Stop the wars, now!" He repeats the phrase half a dozen times as the audience response grows in force. Then he switches to "Freedom-now," and on through a litany of total dissent: "Ban the bombs," "Abolish police...