Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such possible moves as an unconditional bombing suspension and a unilateral ceasefire if those actions could bring Hanoi to the negotiating table. Moreover, he reasoned, a firm program for peace in Viet Nam would "unite the people of the United States in a sense of national purpose" and "stop the erosion of our credibility." Once those goals were attained, he said, "we should have convinced Hanoi that it is more profitable to come to the conference table than to delay." That might be a bit too much to hope for, but, as others have argued, a demonstration of Washington...
...which she was about to preserve apple butter. When she hurried out to get provisions, it meant going to the grocer, the butcher, the druggist, and the hardware store to get all the items on her list. By the time she got home, it was far too late to stop by for a chat with her neighbor Gladys, five blocks away; nor could she phone to explain, for in those days there was only one telephone for every ten people, and someone was always using the party line. Besides, she had to face the laundry stacked beside the hand-powered...
...when there are so many other cars going the same way that he can listen to all of Beethoven's Ninth. By the time he gets to the office, his wife has already called-from the pink, push-button Princess extension in the kitchen-to ask him to stop by the shopping center on the way home and pick up the washing she is going to leave during the day at the Laundromat there. She and Mabel next door are going to a theater matinee in the Mustang, but she will be back in plenty of time to take...
...people. This view is disputed by critics of the policy, of course, who say that few if any Mirages would make it through Russia's thick air defenses to their targets-and that the Russians know this. They point out, too, that the Mirages must stop to refuel in mid-air in order to make the trip, and are thus vulnerable to attack. As for France's planned missile arsenal, they claim that the anti-ballistic missile system Russia is working on will eventually be good enough to nullify the French rockets...
Fiat, which objected to a "fragmentation of the industry," fought hard to stop the government-sponsored Alfa Sud project. But Alfa President Giuseppe Luraghi was the better lobbyist. "By 1981, automobile production in Italy will double to around 2,600,000 cars," said Luraghi. "We intend to participate in that market, and we hope to have at least one-fourth...