Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council of Economic Advisers regards as full employment. The high-living U.S. consumer shows no sign of ending his five-year shopping spree, is currently spending 950 out of every $1 he earns. So durable is the boom, said the London Economist, that "analysts and businessmen may even stop counting the months...
...University Policeman assigned to patrol in front of Leverett and Dunster Houses will continue to do so. The MDC's Basin and Brighton stations -- which have jurisdiction over the bridge and its approaches -- will have patrol cars stop at the Weeks Bridge every half hour and check in from an emergency call box that is to be installed in the middle of the bridge...
...urged opponents of the war to run candidates for Congress in 1966. He ended with an appeal for America to stop the war, and drew loud cheers by crying, "I would rather save her soul than her face...
...three-second burn from the backward-firing thrusters, for example, will increase an astronaut's forward velocity by one foot per second. Because there is no air friction to slow him down, the astronaut will have to use his forward-firing thrusters for exactly three seconds to stop his forward motion as he approaches his destination. If his timing is inaccurate, he may crash into his target or wind up bouncing back and forth like a celestial ping pong ball...
Well, not quite. James Nathaniel Brown, 29, fullback of the National Football League's Champion Cleveland Browns, cannot leap over the Empire State Building-or even stop bullets with his chest. But it is sheer nonsense to try to convince the practitioners and patrons of pro football that Jimmy Brown is an ordinary mortal. After nine seasons in the league, Brown is regarded as a genuine phenomenon in a sport that shares the language ("blitz," "bullet," "bomb") of war. Pro football's stars are the samurai of sport-immensely skilled, brutally tough, corrosively honest mercenaries who respect each...