Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poured thousands of students singing the Internationale and screaming curses of protest against the U.S. air raids on North Viet Nam. Tipped off in advance, the embassy had called on the authorities for protection. As a result, 600 police were on the scene. But the cops did little to stop the mob from bursting through the cordon, vaulting a metal barrier, and scrambling over an improvised rampart of 30 snowplows...
...single, strategic target. Last week Viet Cong campfires cast a brazen glow on the hills outside of town, while in Bong-son's main fort-rimmed with barbed wire and booby traps-soldiers and civil guards had grown so accustomed to attacks that they did not even stop eating when Communist snipers began firing. To them it appeared only a matter of time before they would be wiped...
...occupants' day begins with reveille at 6:45. Half an hour later the revolving room slows down and grinds to a stop. A door is opened and used bedding is taken out while breakfast is brought in. Similar stops are made at noon and dinnertime for meals to be put aboard. As the room slows down, the occupants must lie down. Otherwise they would suffer vertigo. One little twitch of the head at this stage would destroy their painstakingly built-up adaptation to rotation...
...further upset when Pope John dies; so, naturally, she allows her new friend to take her virginity. She is still further upset when he tries to inveigle her into gold smuggling. But with entire predictability, she at last saves him from himself, and the book comes to a stop in a soft pink snowbank. The novel is a skillful, showy little exhibition-but a disappointment from an author who has produced such championship performances as The Roots of Heaven and the autobiographical Promise at Dawn...
...Hugh Scott were your girlfriend's father, you might stop by a bit early so that you could chat with him a while before your date. He looks like a past president of the Kiwanis, has a Major Hoople-ish voice just perfect for harrumphing (although he does not indulge) and a sense of humor just dry enough to let him refer to a political enemy as "that rodent" and pull it off. In addition, the dapper Senator from Pennsylvania has a delightful penchant for the well turned phrase (he often emits a self-congratulatory chortle after some especially well...