Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil rights leaders were by no means through. Said the Rev. Klunder, who was also vice chairman of the local CORE group: "We are dedicated and committed to continue, and we will not stop short of having the school board revise its plans. This can be done by placing our bodies between the workers and their work...
...condition that he would not use his newly recovered power of speech to lobby against the strike. In Ghent's Refuge Ste. Marie, a surgeon asked for police protection to complete a series of four operations. His striking colleagues protested that the surgery could wait-and threatened to stop him if he carried...
Realizing that their united front was disintegrating, and faced with spreading scarlet fever and other outbreaks among Belgian children, the strike leaders agreed to negotiate. But after 14 hours of wrangling, the talks broke down. The strikers tried an ultimatum; they even threatened to stop emergency hospital service. That was it. The government angrily announced that it would start drafting physicians. Once in uniform, the doctors would work when and where they were told to. Said Premier Theo Lefevre: "We will take all measures necessary to prevent the situation from worsening still more...
...thought the problem would be adequately covered by informing the House Committees and the house staffs," Wiggins stated. He added that such actions were "hard to stop" since a student simply has to call the number displayed on each machine to obtain repair service. Wiggins stated that no decision had been made to remove the machine as yet, but that he would look into...
...countries are more frustrating for a resolutely American mind than Italy. Francis Mayers, a onetime freelance writer from New York, was serving more than a hundred clients with a telephone-answering service when he was suddenly ordered to stop by the government-owned telephone monopoly. It made no difference, he was told, that the government did not offer such a service. Now Mayers is on his second business honeymoon, renting office space-complete with secretaries and business machines-to other small firms in Rome...