Word: stopped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germany's Konrad Adenauer and Nationalist China's Chiang Kaishek, his friends. High in the sky he could also slip into a sweater and carpet slippers, read his detective stories, sip rye on the rocks, play the inevitable backgammon with Janet, or make plans to stop off for a swim some place where there were good beaches, say Bermuda, Venezuela or Ceylon...
...been seen in civilized society. Those who were nabbed told pretty much the same story. Each just happened to be driving through Apalachin (from points as far distant as Los Angeles, Kansas City, Dallas and Tucson), just happened to notice lights on in the Barbara house, just happened to stop in for get-well-quick wishes to ailing Joe Barbara, who is a cardiac case. By equal coincidence, Barbara just happened to have on hand a few steaks (200 lbs.) to feed the boys...
...building in Detroit there was quiet talk that Bunky Knudsen might well become G.M. president some day. From the start, Bill Knudsen insisted that his son be on his own. When Bunky was 14, his father told him that he could have a new (1927) Chevrolet if he would stop at the plant. Bunky hurried over-and found the car in several thousand pieces. "It took me a couple of months to assemble the darn thing," he says, "but I finally got it running." THE challenge turned him into a car bug. It also made him determined to fill...
...week a MATS plan to add ten new Douglas DC-8 jets to its fleet at a cost of $66 million ran into a turbulent stream of industry, Administration and congressional opposition. Complained Pennsylvania's Democratic Congressman Daniel Flood of the House Appropriations Committee : "Congress has got to stop MATS from competing with private business...
Library hours were extended, primarily through efforts of the Council; revision of election procedures reduced chances of recurrence of this year's difficulties; and if a stop sign is finally installed at Plympton and Bow, the Council will be largely responsible. But undergraduates remained apathetic, and many of the old difficulties persisted...