Word: stopper
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...throw of a switch got it working again, but Columbia is such a masterpiece of engineering redundancy that any one of the units could have saved the day. Said Flight Director Neil Hutchinson: "It's absolutely amazing. We didn't have anything that is a show stopper...
Personality, roles and situations all work in the chemistry that induces excessive chatter. And certain subjects pull the stopper on even temperate people. Food, for example, instigates a preposterous quantity of repetitious chat. Sex? It has already provoked such an excess of discussion-functional and gynecological-that it is fair to rule all future comment on the subject may be surplus...
Only in the American League West was the race something less than a heart stopper. The Kansas City Royals moved into first place back in May, stretched their lead to 20 games by August and loafed to their fourth division title in five years. In the American League East, the season belonged to another perennial winner. New York's Yankees jumped into first in May and never gave it up, though they did not clinch their fourth division title in five years until the day before the season ended...
when they did though, an imposing back line was there to pick up the slack. Stopper Peter Sergienko teamed up with Don Rung, John Duggan and right fullback Deniz Perese to turn back the pusillanimous Amherst threat...
...best memories was when I was fortunate enough to be a member of the 1968 Cambridge Rindge and Latin basketball team that went to the semifinals of the Tech Tourney, and lost a heart-stopper to Boston English in the final 20 seconds. I will always cherish the experience of competing on Boston Garden's famous checkered floor and the many good friendships I developed and good spirit that was generated at that time." --Kevin Crane, '73 city councilor...