Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still beneath the patchwork coverlet. Over his bed, his tall silk stovepipe hat hung on a peg in the wall. Through the dusty windows, his daughter Ella could catch glimpses of the worn-out Texas land. She wrote laboriously: "Sir. This to say Popa offi low. Now he done stop eating ennything, wont nothing and no one. I am riting let you no he no good. He might be living when you get hear and then he might not." A few hours later, when the coons and possums and mean grey foxes began to move through the scrub...
...stop the Middies tonight, Barclay will send out the same group that started against Northeastern Wednesday. Johnny Rockwell will jump center, flanked by Ed Smith and Pete Petrillo. Cliff Crosby, who finally started hitting Wednesday, and Dick Covey will be at the guards...
...Plomb did not keep its word, and, after several suits, Plumb finally pinned Plomb down in March 1947. A U.S. district court gave the western company a year within which to stop using and advertising its name as a trademark...
...percent. I had Hollywood dancin' to my tune." Willie's compelling tune was extortion; the insistent drumbeat in the background was the threat of physical violence. Studio employees and motion-picture-machine operators joined his labor union-or else. Hollywood studio czars chipped in millions to stop the music -and keep their studios running. What finally "loused up" Willie was a big, quiet civil servant named Elmer...
Campaign. In Petersfield, England, Commuter Raymond Francis Baird paid a $42 fine for pulling the emergency-stop cord on a 60-m.p.h. train, asserted: "I have written to the railway ... I will pull all trains up when they are going too fast...