Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took stock of himself. He had come to Washington to get things done. But his brashness, his refusal to kowtow to his Senate elders, were obviously rendering him ineffective. And late one night, in a moment of truth, Hubert Humphrey confided to a friend: "I'm going to stop kicking my foot against the wall...
...radiophone call to Barry for further clarification. He came back and told the confused newsmen that Goldwater merely meant that the U.S. should be ready to threaten the Red Chinese if they continued to supply Viet Cong guerrillas-telling them that "if they didn't stop, then you would blow up a bridge or show some other sort of force." Wagner explained that Barry had told him on the phone: "I'm not really recommending this but it might not be an impossible idea...
Over designated "black" danger spots on French highways, 13 helicopters hovered last weekend equipped with doctors and plasma and ready to stop the flow of blood as vacationers swarmed home. In Italy, reports of traffic accidents were filling up to five columns almost daily in Rome's II Messaggero, and madcap Italian drivers scored a record 184 deaths during the Aug. 12 to 24 holiday peak. In Germany, where the rate of traffic accidents per vehicle was already five times as great as in the U.S., road fatalities were running 30% higher than last year. And even in Britain...
...militantly Buddhist city of Hue. What followed was an anti-Catholic pogrom. A mob invaded a fishing village housing 4,000 Catholic refugees from Communist North Viet Nam and, as the residents fled in boats, burned 90% of their homes. The government was either unwilling or unable to stop the riots. Beyond detaining 40 looters, Vietnamese troops in Danang merely watched the proceedings. Their Buddhist commander, General Nguyen Chanh Thi, appeared once, drew cheers from the rioters, retired after inspecting the ruins. Mobs broke into a church and smashed a statue of the Virgin. Roving bands looted everything, including stocks...
...Parkway. Last week, at traffic-jammed toll booths on the 173-mile turnpike, toll collectors handed drivers cheerful little green and yellow cards certifying that "BLANK is a member in good standing of the Garden State Parkway Traffic Club and is hereby cited for his patience, under standing and stop-and-go driving skill." The cards, explained Executive Director D. Louis Tonti of the New Jersey High way Authority, are intended to convey to the harried motorist that "his presence is known, his frustration is shared, and his patience is appreciated...