Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasonable? Let us stop insulting the rest of the world. Let us stop wasting priceless energy and billions in wealth merely to build a larger chip for our shoulder. (History has proved that the world will not be intimidated.) Let's apply that energy and wealth to making friends; to lending a helping hand; to being honestly sincere in striving for peace on earth. Let's abolish the hypocrisy that's leading us all to our foolish destruction...
...eyes gleamed behind his rimless glasses, and his tongue was like a two-edged sword. He cried aloud for the citizens of Rose City to repent. They went to movies and dances, he stormed. While the kids played baseball on Sunday, he prayed in church for rain to stop them...
...Governor smiled warmly and waited for the applause to stop. Said he: "That was a charming and over-generous introduction, but I would like to assure Mr. Sprague again in public, as I have in private, that I am happy where...
...Words. As he had before, Gromyko insisted again that the U.S. must destroy its stockpile of atomic bombs, and stop making them. He still wanted Russia and the rest of the Big Five to keep the ultimate right to veto U.N. punishment of nations caught violating world atomic rules. And, said Gromyko, there ought to be an International Control Commission which would "periodically carry out inspection of [atomic] facilities" in all countries...
Customers Lost. Two hundred savings bankers from the State of New York dutifully looked at pictures of four buildings in Manhattan's Yale Club. Two were banks, two undertaking parlors. They could not tell them apart. Advised Industrial Engineer Peter Schladermundt: banks should stop looking like mausoleums; it scares customers away. Banks should look like smart retail shops...