Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago bureau's Jim Bell stood for a long time at a bus stop in The Loop, making a spot check of the current long-skirt vogue. A policeman tapped him on the shoulder and said: "I been watchin' you, buddy. Better move on. We don't like that stuff around here...
...cords vibrating in unison. Late comers tiptoe to their positions to swell the sound that spreads beyond the Yard dormitories. For an hour, or three if necessary, Woody conducts furiously, occasionally shouting "that's it" into the music, or slapping the table with an emphatic "no." Then the singers stop on a temporal dime, and without perceptible damage to the tempo of the rehearsal Woody throws in an anecdote about "Koussie" in a rough approximation of Koussevitzky's English. The atmosphere is always spirited, though not always so gay. When he uses his fist instead of his palm...
When the atmosphere had cleared, the Collegian's editors, whose names always appeared on the front page, found themselves in receipt of an order to stop publication or risk expulsion. Thus passed the Collegian...
...causing more heartaches locally than Ted Weems's recording ever dreamed of. The disc jockey, having access to twelve million pairs of ears via the ether waves, nightly pleads for each listener to write you to put his name in TIME. . . . Unless you do something soon to stop the clamor in the local press and radio station, you may expect an express collect package to arrive in your office soon. . . . It's my radio I'm. sending...
...asked Congress to "authorize the detail of American civilian and military personnel" as advisers and supervisors of the fund (see below). In addition: "I recommend that authority also be provided for the instruction and training of selected Greek and Turkish personnel." He did not guarantee that his requests would stop there. On the contrary...