Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That might have wowed them in Goma, but it did little to stop the spread of rebellion. Almost a third of the nation was no longer under Leopoldville's control; as usual, government troops fled in panic at the very sight of the insurgents. And now a fourth front, potentially more dangerous than those in Kwilu, Kivu and Maniema provinces, had been opened only 100 miles north of Leopoldville. A band of uniformed, well-armed rebels crossed the Congo River border from neighboring Brazzaville Congo, took control of several towns and cut the vital Route Nationale, the combination...
...spurred many suits against New York City after the Civil War draft riots of 1863, in which whites attacked stores employing Negroes. Over city protests, courts upheld the law as constitutional, relying on the English common-law principle that government has an absolute responsibility to stop riots (defined as "tumultuous" assemblages of three or more persons intending to terrorize others). No matter how hard police try to prevent it, property damage is regarded as evidence that the government failed to use enough force to prevent disorder...
...wish for the fines. I'd punch your head in." To a Negro from the South, he shouted: "If you have another accident, I'll make you wish you were back in Mississippi." The judge threatened an Italian immigrant with "another crucifixion" if the defendant failed to stop driving...
...completion of a sister ship, the Nili, scheduled to be named this month. When the tourist traffic to Israel slows down in the fall, Bilu is scheduled to begin plying between Miami and Nassau, while Nili starts running between Southampton in England and Algeciras in Spain, with a stop at Le Havre...
...manner of ordinary men, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse started growing older at birth, 82 years ago. But unlike most he was able to stop the process in mid-adolescence. Wodehouse still lives in the same cloud-cuckoo land of titled old blighters, muscular viragoes and fluffy-minded bachelors that he first celebrated 67 books ago. In his 68th, he demonstrates that he has lost little of his zany zest for a world that once put Essayist John W. Aldridge in mind of "an incubator of oafdom." The oafs in Biffen's Millions are all after an obscure-ly willed fortune...