Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kings issued a joint statement in the same vein: no compromise. But on the next leg of his journey, to visit his nephew Regent Abdul Illah of Iraq, Abdullah dropped a hint to the Arab press to stop the chest-thumping which makes compromise impossible. Said Abdullah: "The significant feature of the situation is not so much a matter of the Arab states being against the Jews but rather against the supporters of world Jewry in the international sphere. Therefore, I wish to advise the Arab press not to be too optimistic . . . not too pessimistic...
Next, the Protestants went to the state legislature, but got nowhere. Then they got the so called "anti-garb" issue on the ballot. They passed out leaflets headed: "Where Will This Stop?" Replied one Catholic leader: "The nuns are there practically as a matter of charity. They are needed in our own hospitals and parochial schools." Besides, he added, there were only 75 nuns teaching public school, and less than 5% of their pupils were non-Catholic...
...Carnegie Lake, N. J., the University of California took high delight in dumping an old foe, favored Washington (TIME, July 5), in the Olympic crew tryouts. Then Coach Ky Ebright's Californians beat Harvard and Princeton in the U.S. Olympic finals. Next stop: the Thames River...
...thousandths the mass of an electron, and have no electric charge by which they can be influenced electrically. They pass right through matter as if it weren't there. Physicists have calculated, says Dr. Gamow, that it would take a lead shield 200 million million miles thick to stop speeding neutrinos...
...After all, if he is ever to mature as a satirist, he must stop tickling the public's toes, and start cutting its throats...