Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City's transportation system is a precarious mechanism. All that is needed to get it out of kilter is for somebody to stop when he should go, or go when he should stop. At cold dawn one day last week, 500 subway motormen (of 3,167 total) decided to stop, walked off their jobs. Within minutes the city's 237-mile subway system was disrupted, its 4,700,000 riders were disoriented. Within two hours the city found itself locked in the biggest, messiest transportation scramble it had ever seen. Commuters flooded to the streets, turning...
...even before Sukarno left the country, General Nasution, who participated in an abortive anti-Sukarno coup in 1952, was moving like a man firmly in the saddle. Backed by Premier Djuanda and most other Indonesian moderates of all parties, he ordered all worker seizures of Dutch properties to stop immediately. All army leaves were canceled, troops ordered into battle readiness and put on a stand-by basis...
...their plays very well indeed and kept a constant stream of shots directed at the Crimson goaltender. Cleary's reflexes looked very slow on a number of shots, especially in the first seven minutes of the second period when he let in three St. Lawrence goals without making one stop...
...House asking for a sign at the corner, expressed satisfaction about the impending action. In the past three weeks, two injury-causing collisions have occurred at the corner. Tierney labeled the number of accidents at the corner as "quite a few. That's why we want to put a stop sign there...
While the city is now taking the first steps for erecting a stop sign, there remain many places where action may be blocked. Until the sign can be erected, two surveys and numerous official decisions on both local and state levels must be made...