Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time. Carrying signs with neatly lettered slogans such as SUPERVISED CEASEFIRE, marchers tramped to the base of the Washington monument for oratory by demonstration sponsors. Cried Baby Doctor Spock: "When will the Administration grow up and stop blaming Communists for America's mistakes?" Protest leaders, who took pains to maintain order, posted more than 300 monitors to "persuade" leftist hangers-on to keep down their signs urging U.S. surrender and an immediate withdrawal from Viet Nam. To show that they, at least, were ready for negotiations any time the Communists were willing, SANE leaders capped the proceedings by sending...
...airline ticket to romantic places. The girl is in blue chiffon, the boy in a tuxedo, and they are dancing as if Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers had coached them. They stop, gently holding each other, and then are held by an invisible silent partner, Eros perhaps, that mischievously demanding deity who turns a moment of playful diversion to the strong mysterious purposes of love...
...sixth round. A ripping uppercut snapped Floyd's head back and turned his legs to rubber; a left hook drove him to his knees. Clay stood there watching, hands at his sides, as Floyd staggered to his feet at the count of nine. "I wanted to stop it earlier," said Referee Harry Krause, who called a halt in the twelfth round. "Patterson was hopelessly outclassed...
...waiting for this decision to be ratified by Parliament, the 51 bishops in the Assembly met in Athens and set about choosing prelates for all the vacant sees. Then a blow fell: at the prodding of upright Bishop Ambrosios of Elevtheroupolis, the Council of State ordered the bishops to stop filling the vacancies...
Stephanopoulos ordered them to stop in the name of the law, but they ignored him. Young King Constantine signed a decree terminating the Assembly, but one bishop contemptuously tore it off the synod gate. Shrugging off a warning from the Ministry of Justice that they were committing a crime by electing and transferring bishops, the Assembly last week kept on sending them off to churches to be consecrated in affluent new jobs. The attendant congregations, instead of greeting the prelates with the liturgical chant of "Worthy, worthy," shouted "Unworthy! Unworthy!" and exchanged kicks and blows with the bishops' partisans...