Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lights blinked out in the Centralia Coal Company's Mine No. 5, near Centralia, Ill. Wiry, redheaded Earl Wilkinson had just coasted his squat, electric locomotive out of a tunnel, banged to a stop in a low cavern near the mine's elevator shaft. He stiffened, listened intently. He heard no sound. But a wind came out of the subterranean darkness and enveloped him in clouds of coal dust and coppery-smelling smoke. "God," he said aloud, "it's a bad windy* or an explosion...
Vincent Astor, who was christened William Vincent Astor, went to court in Manhattan to stop a Vincent Astor Williams from doing business as the Vincent Astor Purchasing Co. Retorted Williams: his grandmother was Vincent Astor's great aunt, and he had just as much right to drop the Williams from one end of his name as Astor had to drop the William from the other...
...chatterbox sister Margaret, "I am not your sister, and I'll permit no slackness." Margaret, too, can be critical. "Lilibet," she once said, "that's the fourteenth chocolate biscuit you've eaten. You're as bad as Mother-you don't know when to stop...
Pinprick Campaign. Last fortnight, at B.A.'s Teatro Colon, Peron listed the Government's enemies: the "oligarchy," Opposition politicians, Communists - and La Prensa. Next day the News Vendors' Union, newly organized and recognized by Perón's Labor Ministry, demanded that the paper stop delivering copies straight to subscribers. Home deliveries account for less than a tenth of La Prensa's 387,384 circulation, but to have cut them off would have thrown 250 employees out of work and cost $400,000 in severance...
...most radical of Ayres's ideas is for Vermonters to stop eating their own syrup. He doesn't think they can afford to, not as long as they need the sugar money to buy a new plow point or improve their stock...