Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since 1950. Though he is the favorite of party regulars, they want a winner, and they wonder whether he is the man. "What's Nixon done that makes him any more electable than he was four years ago?" asks a party professional. "We've got to stop handing out medals for duty performed in campaigns...
...gunnery practice in Turkey or Libya. He's still away from his family 270 days out of the year. Pretty soon his wife remembers the American Airlines ad and says, They're looking for bright young men and you're a bright young man . . .' " To stop that drain, the Navy recently proposed a three-year moratorium on airline hiring of military pilots...
Accusing his accusers of hypocrisy, Banda challenged them to stop issuing empty threats against South Africa-which, after all, is the continent's most powerful nation-and concentrate instead on convincing the whites that apartheid is unnecessary. The only way to convince them, Banda suggested, is by proving that black Africans can get along well with their white neighbors-and that they can govern themselves with responsibility and stability. So far, the record of the OAS nations is hardly convincing, he said: "They practice disunity, not unity, while posing as the liberators of Africa. While they play...
...unquestioning Roman Catholic, was convinced that God would look after him. Another, with a parimutuel mentality, had painstakingly taken the reported casualties and calculated the chance that any one man would be killed or injured on any single day. The risk, he concluded, was so slight that he could stop worrying. All the men, no matter how often they talked of near misses by Viet Cong ground fire, had convinced themselves of their own invulnerability...
...Essentially, what we are seeking is a 'teach-out,' rather than a 'teach-in,'" Alperovitz said. "We have to stop talking among ourselves and start educating other people about the problem...