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Word: stops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...characteristics. Control is no ruthlessly efficient genius, but a pompous, vain bureaucrat who "always likes to be in on a good thing." Lemas has his bureaucratic side too, and he too is proud, often petty, knowing that he is working for a ruthless machine, but unwilling to stop...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Better Than a Spy Story | 3/26/1964 | See Source »

...made his first appearance in the Dining Hall for lunch. Conversation teetered on neutral subjects--mathematical tricks and why the Leverett elevators only stop every second floor. At the end of the first meal, Sorensen was reminded that at Harvard one returns one's tray to the kitchen...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: Theodore Sorensen | 3/26/1964 | See Source »

...policy." Foreign policy is not bipartisan in an election year, and if Johnson would be willing to expend a little of his already tremendous reserve of public support and Congressional good will, he could get a workable aid program through Congress. But to do so he would have to stop conceding every point before the contest even begins. A few judicious pats on the right Congressional elbows, combined with some enthusiastic public statements about the need for foreign aid, could make the difference. If Kennedy with his narrow 1960 victory fresh in Congressional minds could do it in 1961, Johnson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LBJ's Unstrategic Retreat | 3/25/1964 | See Source »

Negroes must stress human rights not civil rights and should take the issue not to Washington but to the U.N. "The only way that Uncle Sam can stop the African nations from coming here is to pass some civil rights legislation," he warned. It is a measure of his appeal that as he became more grandiose, no one laughed...

Author: By Ben W. Heineman jr., | Title: Malcolm X | 3/21/1964 | See Source »

Michigan had been worried about the condition of sophomore guard Cazzie Russell, who went into the game with a bad ankle. Russell turned out to be fine--he scored 21 points--but he wasn't enough to stop Duke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UCLA, Duke to Meet In NCAA Title Game | 3/21/1964 | See Source »

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