Word: stopper
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...show was stopped too frequently for any one number to be called a show-stopper, though I judge that the Deus ex Machina Mambo ("You can put stock in a/ Deus ex Machina . . .") drew the most protracted applause. In fact, the level of humor was so consistently high up to the end, that the show could almost be accused of lacking variety...
...getting bogged down in his talent-lined rut. He promises in the future to drop "all lushes," but The Scarlet Moving Van is the story of the handsome All-America football star who is so frightened by life that he turns to the jug and throws away the stopper. His Brimmer is another charming lush whose great wastes of emptiness can be filled in only with the help of alcohol and indiscriminate sex. Typically they are men with much in them that is good, and Author Cheever registers their fright and decline with delicate ruefulness and in writing that...
...strong smog-control bill, aimed at smog-choked Los Angeles, requiring that cars in California be fitted with suppressors to cut down on engine hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. Progress will be slow: first the state has to approve a suppressor design; then motorists have to get the smog-stopper installed...
...southern pine. He proved equally adept at designing commercial structures. A flower-shaped furniture showroom in laminated redwood pulled business right off the highway. His Warm Mineral Springs Inn, sheltered by 75 overlapping concrete shells suggestive of the nearby tourist-touted "Fountain of Youth," was such a successful traffic-stopper that the luxury motel was forced to add an additional wing...
...some speech difficulty. The trouble, Drs. Alfred J. Luessenhop and William T. Spence decided, was that part of the brain, with an abnormal connection between arteries and veins, was getting too much blood from an enlarged artery. So they wanted an embolus to serve as a stopper in this artery...