Word: interdicting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the triple tiara that Popes John Paul I and John Paul II rejected, to let men know precisely who is running the church. When police in Spain murder priests under the approving eyes of Cabinet ministers, Francesco revives medieval precedent and threatens to place the entire country under interdict unless the culprits are punished. When a cabal of Cardinals plots to depose him, he dispatches them into exile with all the brutal efficiency of a Nixonian Saturday Night Massacre. "Declan, Declan," warns a purged friend on another occasion, "because you love no one, you think you love...
...shape of a sperm whale. It was built to guard the northern entrance to Charles Town Harbor, but its palmetto-wood walls are still incomplete on the shoreward sides, where they stand only 7 feet high. The British would seize the fort and garrison it, Clinton decided, and thus interdict all trade and privateer traffic to and from the busiest port south of Philadelphia...
American policymakers justified the relentless bombardment on the grounds that it was meant to interdict North Vietnamese troops moving south into southern Vietnam and that it would also protect Laos from a purported North Vietnamese "invasion...
Another Communist tactic was a concerted drive to interdict the main highways around Saigon, thus isolating the capital. They succeeded in cutting five main routes, but after often heavy fighting, ARVN counterattacks managed to reopen three of those five...
Figure it out. They have. And they are rushing their stuff in just as hard as we are." The U.S. is doing its best to interdict Communist supplies. While maintaining its halt to air and naval attacks above the 20th parallel, American bombers are hitting the supply routes below the 20th at a near-record pace. Oct. 31, the Hanoi had hoped the agreement would be signed, 13 B-52 missions bombed the coastal routes south of Vinh...