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Word: stopped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pullover. Near Milan, Italy, a nearsighted locomotive engineer stopped his train for half an hour at a grade crossing because he mistook for a stop signal the red sweater of a motorist halted at the crossing waiting for the train to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 22, 1958 | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Over this river there is a moon, but it does not give much light. And I cannot stop thinking... The passport office refused to issue Peter's passport, because she was a transvestite from Brooks House, employed by the Yale Daily News to find out what was shoe at Radcliffe. Harvard rusticated me for getting an E in Fitzway's course. My notes were all on Peter, and Snyde refused to lend...

Author: By M.h. Reeves, | Title: A Chimney of Nasturtiums | 12/17/1958 | See Source »

...stop," said the ghost, a scowl on his face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Portrait of the Artist | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

...have got to stop spending if we are going to keep further dilution of the dollar from taking place. ...All of you know the extent to which I am dedicated to the whole theory of liberty and freedom and of free enterprise, and I believe that these things--we cannot have these concepts applied completely in our country unless we do stop this money spending." --Dwight D. Eisenhower...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Comfort and Joy | 12/16/1958 | See Source »

...that juncture, four substitutes entered the game, and along with George Harrington, held the 12-point advantage to the end of the half. M.I.T. tried unsuccessfully to stop the Crimson with a nebulous zone defense throughout the half, and was also unable to rebound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Five Notches 72-56 Victory In Contest With Ineffectual M.I.T. | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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