Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loved Him." "Yesterday he started drinking again after I had left town. He returned to our home in my absence. He started mistreating one of our horses. Anne pleaded with him to stop. He became enraged and violent, and threatened to kill the horse. He also threatened her. She ran into the house to get away from him. He followed her, threatening and cursing and with his fist clenched. She picked up my .45 automatic, which I keep in my desk...
...last-year girl," explained Harper's Bazaar. "You can let the clock stop, of course, if you want to ally yourself with women who hold off until a new fashion is on everyone else's back. . . . Put your hands around your waist, just above your hips. This is your waistline. The line goes up, rounded and small, to a defined and shapely bosom." Harper's, having first proclaimed in a kind of hypnotist's monotone that "already you are noticing [that] heavy, bulky shoulder pads are annoying you," now went unconcernedly...
...Catholics-high and lifted up. It preaches the love of God, but it also preaches the fear of the Devil. . . . The Catholic doctrine of Heaven has meaning because there is meaning and reality in the Catholic doctrine of Hell. . . . As Protestants I wish we'd stop worrying and clamoring against the secular competition with Roman Catholicism and begin to worry a little bit about the spiritual competition...
...Jewish boys in Dorchester and several attacks on Negroes. To quote from the leaflet circulated by the Boston Youth Council: "We believe in free speech, but we will not permit the lecture platform to be used as a center for pogroms and lynchings." We tried long and hard to stop Smith through legalistic channels, but a telephone barrage and many personal visits failed to persuade Acting Mayor Hines or the trustees of the Old South Association to call off the meeting in the interest of public safety. When the municipal authorities so shamefully negelect their duty, it leaves only...
Fleabite. In defense of the price boost, Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace struck a querulous note. He berated "the pastime or indoor sport" of blaming all economic ills on the steel industry. "Until we stop raising costs," he said, "we can't stop raising prices." Anyway, he added, the cost of steel was only "a fleabite" in the cost of living...