Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interservice wrangling is a healthy democratic sign. We taxpayers should be pleased that our Armed Forces are fighting for the privilege of giving us what they think is the best possible protection. We will have to start worrying about defense ourselves when the branches of our Armed Forces stop worrying...
Professor Dobie's The Voice of the Coyote, which was reviewed in TIME, May 16, might cause some people to write their Congressmen and demand that the Fish & Wildlife Service stop killing coyotes...
...heat wave caught Canadian politicians in the final round of the general election campaign that ends June 27, but the weather did not stop them. They just peeled off their coats and went on with the job. In the past eight weeks Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and Tory Leader George Drew had crisscrossed the Dominion in an appeal for votes. Despite all their oratory, the country's political temperature had stayed close to normal. It apparently would remain that way until election...
...freshmen, nothing short of a torpedo can stop them from winning. Coach Harvey Love has developed the best yearling boat in many a season. In fact, they are good enough to have defeated their own varsity in time trials, something unprecedented in rowing circles...
...missed few bets. At night, before locking up, Penney always looked up & down the street so as not to lock out any late customers. By the end of his first year he had grossed $28,898.11-big money for a whistle stop. Soon Penney had surplus cash to buy stores in other towns, looked around for likely local partners. By 1912, he had 34 stores, grossing $2,000,000 a year...