Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...massive" infiltration and gunrunning from the United Arab Republic. Last week, after visiting Cairo and making a strong pitch to Nasser to use his influence with the rebels to calm the situation, Hammarskjold said that he was "optimistic" that his thin line of border watchers could eventually put a stop to meddling from the Syrian side...
...amorous panic, the Bundeswehr had to ask the Bavarian radio to broadcast an announcement to quiet the aggrieved wives. But one officer felt not so much indignant at East German trickery as he did despairing about West German women: "They didn't stop to think, didn't use their heads, or refuse to believe the letters out of confidence in their husbands. No. They opened them, read them and, instantly, they were convinced." Another officer had a different concern. "I hope," he mused thoughtfully, "that soldiers now won't get the idea of nonchalantly palming off real...
...back again was accomplished by Bell Aircraft Corp. at Niagara Falls on May 24, when Test Pilot David W. Howe lifted the X-14 vertically off the runway. He hovered for a few seconds, then flew horizontally at 160 m.p.h. Returning to the airport, he came to a full stop ten feet off the ground, made a 180° hovering turn, and settled down on the surface...
...their 3-liter Ferrari well back in the pack. And they saw the field thin rapidly as they nursed their car along. Last year's winning Jaguars, their engines cut down to meet the new 3-liter limit, began to fail after 15 minutes. Moss rattled to a stop within three hours. The course became an automobile boneyard...
...Went Hathaway. In San Pedro, Calif., two days after her house was looted, Mrs. Henrietta Cheatham pulled up at a stop sign, recognized her husband's shirt on the driver of the car beside her, noted the license number, later told police how to locate long-sought Burglar George Brotsis...