Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every dollar the Federal Government has received since March 1933, it has spent two dollars. This is an appalling situation. . . . We must put the spenders out. For remember, those who preach spending, practice spending and brag about spending cannot stop spending. This is the lesson of history. That is the record of this Administration. They are proud of their spending. They talk of it as though preserving the financial integrity of the United States were only a game. ... If the Administration wants a baseball analogy, if they want the score-it is easy to give. It is written clear across...
...swords of the Montagues and the Capulets are out and there are slashes and recoveries, thrusts and parries, blows--when Benvolio leaps into the midst to stop the fray. Tybalt is upon him. The Vagabond shudders and runs from the scene...
Ordinarily the big timepiece does not get in much trouble during the year, but occasionally ice and snow stop it at the beginning of winter or else a loosening bolt lets a hand slip out of proper position...
Many a patriotic citizen within & without the G. A. R. had tried in vain to stop the advancing tide. In 1882 Senator Hawley of Connecticut declared: "There are no men who will pass a severer judgment on excessive or unnecessary or fraudulent pensions than the soldiers themselves...
Presently Eastern Air Lines' General Manager Eddie Rickenbacker, who played godfather to the whole stunt, arrived with a rescue party, persuaded the two to stop bickering, fly on together. Flyer Merrill at once telegraphed New York: "There is positively no truth in the rumor that Harry and I have any differences. We are closer friends than any two men living...