Word: stoppered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eastern game-in which, according to legend, the chessmen were prisoners of war, and once taken, were beheaded-the Soviet game employed beauteous ballerinas and assorted other troupers, each of whom, upon being captured, put on a performance. So distracting, in fact, was the circus atmosphere (the show stopper: a satirical song that went, "Kings get five-room apartments Knights get single rooms And pawns get nothing at all") that peerless Grand Master Botvinnik could do no better than a draw...
...most startling exhibit was put up by the Redemptorist Fathers: a stuffed anaconda from the jungles of Brazil, where the congregation operates missions. "It's a great crowd-stopper," explained Father John Morton, who takes the 20-ft. serpent with him on his cross-country pursuits of vocations. "Everybody has a gimmick. This is mine...
...spokesman said the derailment occured when the train went through a red light, setting off an automatic stopper which jolted the front car from the tracks. Workmen replaced the car on the tracks by mid-afternoon...
...meat proteins and fried foods) to strengthen his throwing-even while working as an off-season customers' man on Wall Street. He has never won 20 games in a season, partly because the Yankees pulled him out of the regular pitching rotation to use him as a "stopper" in the big games. In 1960 he had his worst year, 12-9, although he redeemed himself with two shutouts against Pittsburgh in the World Series...
...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...