Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stop the Carnival, Wouk...
Last April the emergency committee, which is sponsored by the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation, took a two-page ad in the New York Times to proclaim: MR. PRESIDENT: IN THE NAME OF GOD, STOP IT! Many of its members showed up in Washington a month later for a mass vigil at the Pentagon, protesting escalation of the Viet...
...altered by Johnson's decision is the leave-of-absence. Colleges traditionally do not offer men taking a year's leave protection from the draft. Students have been taking leaves only after making arrangements with local draft boards; the drafting of 19-year-olds may put a stop to leaves-of-absence altogether
...elation soon turned to despair. JPL control began receiving conflicting signals about the performance of the two-track, continuous-loop tape recorder. "There is alarm in the analysis team," James announced. The signals hinted that something was wrong with the recorder's stop mechanism. Quite possibly it was not cutting off for a 24-second interval between each picture. If so, the tape would have run through its two tracks twice as fast as it should have; it would have recorded only half of the 21 pictures. The confusion was compounded when a disembodied voice over the intercom announced...
...restaurant affords virtually every table a front-row view of the ocean. Rockefeller's total costs come to an astronomical $100,000 per room-a handsome bet on the hope that intelligent and affluent tourists will spend the extra effort to get to his faraway paradise rather than stop short at Waikiki Beach...