Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buckley filed suit asking for $500,000 in damages. The charges stemmed from a fang-and-claw exchange that took place on ABC-TV during the Democratic Convention last August. At one point in the debate, Vidal called Buckley a "crypto-Nazi," to which Buckley replied: "Listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in your goddam face and you'll stay plastered." That sounded faintly libelous itself. Asked if he planned to file a countersuit, Vidal said, "It's possible...
...block sensations of pain and keep the adrenaline surging. The study also confirmed the common-sensical suspicion that fighting in a group, in direct contact with the enemy, is an important stimulus to heroics. Men wounded away from battle -by mines or long-distance rockets -usually sense pain and stop what they are doing...
...military interviewers concluded that soldiers are able to follow the Spartan requirements of combat almost exactly, putting buddies and mission ahead of self. Though the sensible course would be to stop or retreat, wounded men under fire are most likely to respond to the needs of the fellow next to them. Their first reaction when they regain consciousness is most often to ask about their unit: "How many Charlie did we kill? Did we take the hill...
...parallels that felt in the early 1900s by labor leaders, who were repeatedly stymied by management's use of the injunction to halt strikes. In 1932, Congress finally came to labor's aid with the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which prohibited federal courts from issuing an injunction to stop peaceful, nondisruptive strikes...
...with the job. In the offing too are the new generations of young people waiting and needing to learn. In the light of these considerations the one unlikable conclusion, which I take it I share with you, is that the turmoil and violence on our campuses must stop...