Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Driving in from the airport, we were protected by a Colombian Army private with his Mauser thrust through the open window. On the way he shouted 'stop!' got out, knelt on the running board and began banging away at some snipers down Carrera Séptima. When he jumped back in the car, he said: 'I think I got one of them...
Then Mae Reuther ran for towels, knelt, tried to stop the flow of her husband's blood. People burst into the kitchen. A neighborhood doctor arrived. Reuther said wildly: "Those dirty rats had to shoot a fellow in the back." An ambulance crew pushed in, carried him off to Grace Hospital...
With three weeks to go before the British mandate expires, U.N. was frantically seeking for a workable plan for Palestine. The Security Council appointed a truce commission to try to persuade Arabs and Jews to stop their war. That was almost certainly a futile gesture. Nevertheless, the consular representatives of the U.S., France and Belgium (named as the commission) held a meeting in Jerusalem against a background of gunfire...
...soon a message went out from Communist headquarters to "stop moping." Palmiro Togliatti gave out the official excuse for the defeat: the elections had not been free-the U.S. and the Vatican had interfered. Said Luigi Longo, who commands the Red partisans: "The election was not a Waterloo, but just a lost battle . . . The relations between the government and the people will go through dangerous tensions . . . We will collect the fruits of our labors at some future date...
...rains came too late. Under a lowering sky, the tennis team went down to its first league defeat yesterday against Cornell, 7 to 2. The Cayugans took all six singles matches and the first doubles match to stop cold the Crimson's five game winning streak...