Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Mayor Moore was on the warpath again. To protest making Electra a whistle stop for express trains, he had thousands of plastic whistles molded in the shape of locomotives. He made a trip to the state capital at Austin, passed them out to the governor, the legislature (legislators cheered him admiringly and blew their whistles in chorus) and everybody else he met. Then he demanded a special hearing by the Texas Railroad Commission...
...week's end, the commission ordered the railroad to go on stopping at Electra until it could examine all evidence and hand down a permanent ruling. Mayor Moore was jubilant-he was certain that no man in his right mind would vote to make the biggest little town in Texas a whistle stop...
...last week, Russian officers and soldiers appeared at three canal locks inside the British sector, and ordered the lock keepers to stop all barges which could not show Russian papers. They based their case on the fact that the barge-licensing office had been in Soviet territory before the East and West sectors set up their own city governments...
First Officer Cyril Senior was at the conn, approaching Rio's broad, mountain-ringed harbor at about 15 knots when, without a hint of danger, came the sensation that strikes terror into every sailor's bones: a sharp, grinding noise forward. The 'Magdalena shuddered to a stop, hard aground on a reef so shoal that breakers creamed over...
...ever ... I believe in the free use of an unbridled tongue. I am glad I have one." Earlier in the week, he had proved it still wagged without rein. Looking like a ferocious teddy-bear, he interrupted a Mozart concert to glower at his Glyndebourne audience, tell them to stop stomping out the beat. Said he: "I feel this is a prerogative which in this instance must be left to me." A few days later, he showed the Liverpool Philharmonic musicians the way to play Mozart (a way few critics quarrel with) and gave his admirers another piece...