Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shoot!" At 8:45 in the morning, six miles northeast of the town of Van Wert, West brought the big haulaway rig jolting and hissing to a stop. There was a police car across the highway. Van Wert County's grizzled Sheriff F. Roy Shaffer called: "You got any passengers in back?" West said: "None that I know...
...readjustment of Western policy would have to start with a clear understanding of what Russia was now trying to do in Europe. The Kremlin had two main objectives: 1) to wipe out or reduce U.S. power on the Continent, and 2) to stop Western Union. On objective No. 1 the Russians' Berlin crisis had backfired. By committing itself to the relief of Berlin the U.S. had committed itself more deeply than ever to the defense of Europe. The very vulnerability of the U.S. military position in Berlin taught the lesson of how necessary it was to have force...
Keys & a Stone. Ch'ih Pai-shih has many fears. One is that people might stop ordering his paintings, and that he will be forced into the streets to peddle them himself. Another is that someone will rob him, and that he must keep all his paints and possessions always locked up, carrying the keys around with him on a rope about his waist. With such worries, and 50 relatives, and a whole year - and thousands of square feet - of orders to fill, there was little peace last week for Ch'ih Pai-shih. Once in a while...
...naturally the poor dancers could hear nothing ... I had to hold Nijinsky by his clothes, for he was furious, and ready to dash on to the stage at any moment . . . Diaghilev kept ordering the electricians to turn the lights on or off, hoping in that way to put a stop to the noise...
Lotus Land, G.l.s' Last Stop. Far different was famed Capri, where the Millars touched on the last leg of their voyage. In one of his book's most evocative passages, Millar describes the effect of this lotus land on the American soldiers who were in rest camp there. From members of "the most boisterous" of armies they had changed into "quiet, ruminative, and lazy" dreamers, "liable to form touchingly unmartial habits, like carrying walking sticks, or putting blue flowers in their hats, or chewing at the stems of roses while the blooms hung below their chins ... A dozen...