Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worth the trouble to start a polemic, since the struggle that all Cubans have ahead of them does not permit me to lose time clearing up stories without foundation. As our apostle José Martí well said: "He who goes in search of mountains does not stop to pick up stones in the road...
...very well be, for it seemed that nothing short of major military aid from the outside could stop the rebels and preserve the month-old "government of public salvation" led by Premier Moise Tshombe. Though the Congolese army, in a rare show of aggressiveness, had recaptured the river port of Bolobo some 200 miles northeast of Leopoldville and three other towns, rebel forces threatened Kivu Central province's highland capital of Bukavu. The rampaging insurgent forces reportedly captured the tin-mining town of Manono as well...
...major stop on the President's tour was the vast $34.2 million Limpopo settlement scheme in southern Mozambique, into which Portugal hopes to lure 1,000 immigrant families from the homeland, as well as 500 more from Mozambique itself. Each new farmer will receive up to 25 acres of irrigated land, a new house, furniture and tools, as well as two bullocks, a milk cow, two pigs, five chickens and a rooster. The 14-village project serves two purposes: it takes the pressure off the government at home, where poverty and discontent are mounting, and it strengthens Mozambique...
...Next stop for the swimmers is the Olympic trials in Queens, N.Y., later this month. After last week's A.A.U. spectacular, some coaches might be expected to taper off for fear of overtraining. Not Santa Clara's George Haines. "We didn't even attempt to reach our peak," he said. "Our boys and girls will be better for the Olympic trials, and better still for the Olympic games." So back to work it was for his young charges, swatting up and down the pool, practicing twice...
...poet-king he was supposed to be. Why, for instance, was the death scene staged like a ballet? And if Richard was a minor poet, who could be fascinated by Bolingbroke's tired pun on "shadow," why does everything come to him so automatically? Why does he never stop to think of the next line...