Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With its latticework of bridges, boulevards and traffic circles, Washington, D.C., is a vulnerable target, and Mayday Organizer Rennie Davis and his radicals have had the city squarely in their sights for a long time. Determined to bring the Government to a halt for at least one day, they are bent on carrying out a meticulous plan that is a model of guerrilla ingenuity. The theme: stop the blood and you stop the heart. Stop the heart and the "monster"-the war machine-dies. The means: block the city's bridges and roads with thousands of protesters...
...William Rogers follows up meetings in London, Paris and Ankara with a five-nation Middle East circuit this week, the U.S. hopes to make the most of his Cairo visit for peacemaking purposes. Rogers is paying ceremonial calls on Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, and will make a brief halt in Amman principally to bolster Jordan's King Hussein...
...Your cover titled "Who Shares the Guilt" is the latest of a series of insinuations that really bugs me. I am not about to accept any blame for any of this fiasco. I was against the war to begin with, had no opportunity within the System to halt it, was taxed without a vote to support it and am about to be forced to send two sons to murder and be murdered in it. Let Calley share the guilt with the people who sent...
Kushtia, a quiet town in the rice-growing district near the broad Ganges, fell into a restless sleep on the night of March 25. Without warning, 13 Jeeps and trucks came to a halt outside Kushtia's police station. It was 10:30 on the night the war broke out. Delta Company of the 27th Baluch Regiment had arrived from its base at Jessore cantonment 60 miles to the south. The 147 men of the company quickly disarmed some 500 Bengali policemen without meeting any resistance and then occupied four additional key points: the district police headquarters, the government...
...this year-a clear-as-vodka, 80-proof potion called "white whisky." The drink, named Frost 8/80, is distilled at more than 160 proof, then filtered through hardwood, softwood and nutshell charcoal to make it colorless. Schenley, National Distillers and American Distilling have brought suit -so far unsuccessfully-to halt the marketing of Frost 8/80. They accuse Brown-Forman of jumping the gun on their spirits of '72 and of causing confusion that could hurt light whisky's introduction...