Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King admitted that 10 million Americans at most "explicitly oppose the war," but said that they included many of "our deepest thinkers in the academic and intellectual communi ty." Building to a sonorous peroration, he cried: "Let us save our national honor-stop the bombing. Let us save American lives and Vietnamese lives-stop the bombing. Let us take a single instantaneous step to the peace table-stop the bombing. Let our voices ring out across the land to say the American people are not vainglorious conquerors -stop the bombing." Through it all ran the theme that America, "which initiated...
Then, concluding, he declared, "We will either stop Communist aggression...
...becomes the functional equivalent of a stick. If the astronaut's power pack has malfunctioned but he is otherwise alright, he can pull himself in, hand over hand, on the rigid tether. If he is unconscious, the loose tether can be gently reeled in, then made rigid to stop him in relation to the spacecraft, then reeled again, and so on until he reaches the hatch...
Russell was not awed. At the age of two he had said of Robert Browning, a man who had stayed to dinner: "Why doesn't that man stop talking?" and later withstood the awful eye of Prime Minister Gladstone as the original Grand Old Man asked after dinner: "This is very good port they have given me, but why have they given it to me in a claret glass?" After unanswerable questions like that, Bertie developed the confidence he needed to decide that New ton's calculus was "a tissue of fallacies" and to begin his historic collaboration...
...prisoners are most successful when they get a little gutsy, when they stop trying to prove themselves artists by showing-off a studio technique. The grotesquely erotic symbolism of Willie Rogers' paintings, and the harrowing eyes of a strong man afraid in Robert Urquart's "Self Portrait" are the best art in the show because they clearly are made by confined...