Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role in international affairs which destiny had imposed on the United States." He witheringly attacked those who "think it is their function to portray the U.S. to the world as a stupid and brutal power unnecessarily killing thousands of people and burning villages. Their military advice is to stop shooting the enemy on the theory that if we did, the gratitude of the enemy would be so great as not to take advantage...
...longtime friend and adviser, Major Michael Arnaoutis, 39. Some men, reported the major, were trying to smash into his house. "Can you call the police?" asked the King. The major replied that he had done so, but that the police had been unable to stop the raiders. Then the connection was broken...
...when he discovered that 20 lines of Molly Bloom's famous soliloquy had been blacked out of the subtitles. Storming into the projection booth, he was confronted by six guards. "That's my film!" Strick cried. "You've mutilated it, and you've got to stop the projection!" There was a struggle, and Strick was thrown out of the booth. Limping back to his balcony seat on a twisted ankle, he screamed, "Stop the projection! My film has been mutilated!" The picture continued to the end amid a riotous shouting contest in the audience...
...More than 250,000 people lined the sandy banks along the Susongchon River north of Pusan. "We should not delay the national task of modernizing Korea," President Chung Hee Park, 49, told them. "If we stop working now, Korea will waste another 20 years catching up." One hundred fifty miles away in Seoul, Old Campaigner and ex-President (1960-62) Posun Yun, 69, stirred another crowd of 250,000 by warning that Park's economic policies were wrecking the country. What is more, Yun charged, Park's government was "sick with corruption, irregularities and dictatorial authoritarianism...
...letter began, "that the Lynchburg newspapers are contributing to frustration and bitterness. To persist in these policies can only be destructive of the general morale as well as the reputation of our community." The citizens asked for only two small changes in the papers' policy: that they stop suppressing all good news about the city's Negro high school and that they start publishing Negro obituaries instead of charging for them as classified advertisements. "We hope," concluded the letter, "that our Negro citizens will be encouraged by the knowledge that there are many thoughtful white citizens in this...