Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thinking" early last week by posting along Peking's major streets a "Declaration of War on the Old World." The Guards' vow: "To mercilessly destroy every hotbed of revisionism." Down the streets they rampaged, roughing up Chinese in foreign dress, ordering shopkeepers to stop selling books except those that reflect Mao's thinking and to rid themselves of imported articles or luxury items. In the place of cosmetics, ordinary floor-scrubbing soap was put on sale for facial care. Also on the taboo list: goldfish, exotic birds, flowers, antiques, elaborate coffins, signs with gilded instead...
...Revisionism Street. The Gate of Heavenly Peace, scene of Communist mass rallies, became The East Is Red-a favorite Mao slogan. Legation Street, location of most foreign embassies in Peking, was changed to Anti-Imperialist Street. The Guards also ordered a change in the traffic lights: green now means stop and red means go because red is the color of the forward-moving revolution...
...long, narrow strip wedged between the mountains and the sea. Lined by roads, railroads and inland waterways, it is Ho's principal supply route to the Communist troops in the south. It is also the prime target of U.S. air raiders, whose goal is to stop the supplies...
...Comrade Fomenko is right," thundered the editor's reply. "It is high time to stop this nonsense." Though Fomenko had been referring to the large and growing number of Russians who are buying cooperative apartments and building their own homes with government credits, Izvestia's reply presumably extended to the owners of all sorts of worldly possessions...
...Mind-stop wandering