Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anti-statehooders still found time for apprehension about the problems ahead, e.g., new, higher taxes to pay for state services. Scoffed Anchorage's bewhiskered antistatehood leader, John Manders: "Did you ever see anybody stop a crowd on its way to a hanging? Wait till the honeymoon is over and the taxes arrive...
With the inborn shrewdness of the feuder, Bracken Lee has carefully selected his ground. He will run as an Independent, out of reach of disapproving Republicans at the state convention and the primary election, but accessible to Democrats of a mind to stop Watkins by stepping across the party boundary at primary time to vote for Watkins' competition. Both parties, said Lee impartially in announcing his independent candidacy, "stand for and support the same policy of high tax, waste and giveaway programs...
...strain. Many viruses are packets of DNA wrapped in a coat of protein. When a virus infects a living cell, it leaves its coat outside. The DNA enters the cell and takes charge of its activities, issuing chemical orders as if it owned the place. Its orders are simple: "Stop everything and make more virus particles packed with DNA." The cell obeys helplessly, turns its contents into virus particles, bursts and dies...
Great danger in all major operations inside the chest is that the nerve centers controlling breathing and heartbeat will stop. The deeper the anesthesia, the greater the danger. So surgeons and anesthesiologists have tried to develop "light anesthesia" methods, which should be safer. One way of checking whether the anesthesia is light enough, Marmer reasoned, was to make hypnosis a part of it so that the patient could be awakened during the operation...
...more than tenfold since 1951, topped $400 million last year, are heading for $500 million in 1958. Every day almost 10 million U.S. men use aerosol shaving creams, and more than 10 million women put on aerosol hair sprays. The 250 different aerosol products on the market can stop runs in hosiery, smoke bees out of hives, extinguish fires, bandage wounds and deodorize homes, pets or people. Said a Manhattan merchandising expert: "People will buy anything in those fascinating pushbutton cans-even air." Aerosol men agreed. Recently Liquid Glaze, Inc. brought out an aerosol can of compressed gas called Spair...