Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show an enlightened and humanitarian spirit" by calling off the raids, "even without conditions," and the pressure from European capitals is intense. Said a U.S. official: "If Ho Chi Minh announces that his representatives are on their way to Geneva to meet with us, the pressure to stop bombing would be tremendous and perhaps irresistible." The Administration nonetheless is bent on resisting that pressure until the day when Hanoi unequivocally signals its willingness to negotiate on bona fide terms...
...England, that presents some problems. Though the earl can be divorced like any ordinary Briton, remarriage is another matter. Harewood comes under the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, which was rammed through Parliament by George III in an effort to stop his kin from keeping house with commoners. The act requires the sovereign's permission for any royal marriage; the punishment for ignoring it is to deny the title to the offender's wife and children...
Monro praised Rawl's motion for not asking the University to stop its policy of computing class ranks. Monro has not changed his previous position on this policy -- that Harvard has an obligation to supply the rankings as long as deferments exist and local draft boards ask for them...
...immense red-upholstered theatre listening to a six-track stereophonic overture, surrounded by a 160 degree are of curtain. The overture fades, the lights dim, and as the projectors start to roll, the red curtain majestically opens, revealing the screen. And the screen doesn't stop; it fills a wall and keeps going past it, curtain majestically opens, revealing the screen. And the screen doesn't stop; it fills a wall and keeps going past it, curving until it begins to run parallel with the extreme left and right aisles. Finally it stops--just short of engulfing the audience...
...trick photography is never relevant, always self-conscious and arbitrary. Grand Prix really has no color either, only color tone carefully inserted by the laboratories, probably when they discovered that no one involved in making the picture had done anything about planning or controlling the color. Someone should stop amateurs like this Frankenheimer person from making movies. Grand Prix is an insult to the intelligence of the audience, but more important, it's an insult to the size of its screen...