Word: stops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though the crowd remained inattentive through most of the remarks, it did stop to give Horace Bright, Alec's older brother and a major force behind the new rink, a standing ovation...
Leaders of the antinuclear movement agree. Last week some 2,000 demonstrators crowded the narrow streets of New York City's financial district, urging that investors stop putting money into nuclear power companies. Singing the antinuclear anthem, You Are My Sunshine, the protesters surrounded the New York Stock Exchange and tried to keep brokers from entering. Police arrested 1,045 demonstrators, and business at the exchange went on as usual. Nonetheless, the antinuclear forces claimed a partial victory. "We've sent a message to the country," insisted Edward Cyr, 23, of Boston, as he tossed leaves, symbolizing nuclear...
...than they were with saving hundreds of thousands of Cambodians from starvation and death. Condemning the obstructionist tactics that have thus far limited relief supplies to a fraction of the need, Danforth observed: "If a government is determined to murder its own people, I don't know how to stop...
...plan was first suggested by the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh of the University of Notre Dame. Said he: "I'm perfectly willing to ride in the lead truck and get shot in the process rather than sit back and have it on my conscience that I did nothing to stop a second holocaust" Hesburgh also suggested that the U.S. withhold grain sales to the Soviet Union unless the Kremlin collaborates in making 150,000 tons available to the Cambodians immediately. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the Senate majority leader, contacted Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin in an appeal to Moscow to persuade...
...exhausted, the body accelerates the breakdown of proteins in muscles, including the heart, which saps strength. At the same time, the body attempts to husband its resources by cutting energy requirements to the minimum. Pulse rate and blood pressure fall and body temperature drops. Men become impotent; women stop menstruating, and nursing mothers fail to produce milk; children stop growing. Mental and physical lassitude set in, and individuals become obsessed with finding food. Some malnourished people develop edema, a swelling, especially in the joints and abdomen...