Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later the "strike" broke, on the ground that 13 union members had been discharged. But it was less a walk-out than a force-out. At 4 a. m. strikers scaled the yard fences, raided the plant, drove the night shift out with hardly a moment's grace to stop the machines...
Somebody told him he ought to stop spitting, that his lungs were bad. So he went to Nashville...
...more than 1,000 capped and beribboned student nabobs met in mass protest. While they vowed defiance to Adolf Hitler's minions, capless and unribboned students approached, jeering the Korps, shouting "Heil Hitler!" At this the nabobs attacked, starting the bloodiest riot seen in years at Gottingen. To stop it shocked professors called the police who called firemen who rushed to the scene with all Gottingen's fire engines and restored order by heroic squirting...
...time has come," said Henry Goddard Leach one day last winter, "for somebody to stop guessing and really find out what undergraduates of 1934 think about...
Jimmy tore his bread to crumbs which he scooped from the tablecloth and dumped into his soup. While Johnny postured for company Jimmy reached across the table and ate up all Johnny's soup. "Stop that, Jimmy," cried Father Wood. Jimmy stopped, then surreptitiously kicked Johnny on the shins under the table. Explained Father Wood: "Johnny's a gentleman, but Jimmy's a mug." Added Mother Wood, wearily: "Jimmy's much more bossy. When he wants something...