Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Jawaharlal Nehru: "Sometimes when there are no new experiences, time seems to stop." Then, in wry reference to his years in British jails, he added: "And I have had this experience of time stopping for months and years in my life...
...steady rain was falling when Castro awoke in Panajachel the next morning, and he decided to stay on another day. Twenty-four hours later there was still no letup, and streams on either side of Panajachel were swollen. Castro went to church to pray that the rains might stop. All that night torrents fell, and Castro trembled with fear that his cornpatch might be washed into the lake or buried by landslides from the mountains. Next morning he joined the village elders as they dressed an image of San Francisco in a raincoat and paraded it down the street while...
...women's coats could not get his goods through Customs because U.S. officials were unable to decide whether the import duty should be levied on the cloth or on the coat buttons. EUR) European countries must relax or abolish all import-export controls as quickly as possible and stop penalizing exporters, as Britain has, by putting an extra tax on export profits...
...preferred to soak his colors in bleach and pin his hair in a tight bun. His Notebook (the whittlings-down of "fifteen stoutish volumes") contains mostly workaday jottings from 1892 (when he had just started to write) to 1949 (when he suggests that he is just about to stop). "I publish it," he explains, "because I am interested in the ... process of creation ... By some happy chance what interests me seems to interest a great many other people...
...books about the finish of the human race were laid end to end, authors might get the idea and stop writing them. Until then, readers can only hope that once in a while somebody will write a pretty good one, as bestselling Author George R. Stewart (Storm) has done...