Word: stalls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gather that to the many other arts has now been added the art of the book-jacket....To stand by any book-stall or to enter any book-shop is to witness a terrific scene of Internecine warfare between the Innumerable latest volumes, almost all of them violently vying with one another for one's attention, fiercely striving to outdo the rest in crudity of design and of colour. It is rather like visiting the parrot-house in the Zoological Gardens, save that there one can at least stop one's ears with one's fingers, whereas here one merely...
Soon after New Year's, Johnson will have to decide whether to 1) stall, 2) ask Congress to erase all or part of the income tax reductions for which he battled last year, 3) seek new revenues from excess profit taxes and imposts on luxuries (as Harry Truman did to finance the Korean War) or 4) try a relatively painless palliative such as increasing the amount of income tax withheld from paychecks or accelerating corporate tax payments. Whatever the solution, catching up with the rabbit may not be the easiest of encounters for Lyndon Johnson...
...last year's contest with Davenport, tow pass interceptions were instrumental in setting up Leverett's 14-6 victory. In the crucial Winthrop game this year, Bunny defenses picked up a fumble on their own 17-yard line to stall what might have been a game-winning drive...
Convicted under U.S. law, the defendants appealed on the grounds that the California Supreme Court has already invoked the Fourth Amendment twice to bar almost precisely similar evidence. The state court ruled that a public toilet stall is a place of privacy that police cannot invade unreasonably. In the Yosemite case, however, the U.S. Appellate Court sharply disagreed and upheld the convictions...
...Stalled Column. From there it was only four miles to Baraka, but hardly had Hoare's men moved out than their charge began to stall. On the outskirts of town, two battalions of Simbas rained mortar, bazooka and machine-gun fire on the commandos. A spearhead led by Hoare's two armored cars finally broke through, but it was two long days before he was in firm control of Baraka, and then only after most of the town had been destroyed. Death toll: five commandos, 215 Simbas...