Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roosevelt did not turn his back on things social. He was impressed enough to write home once: "THE CROWN PRINCE OF SIAM was at the game, and came to the FLY after it for some 'afternoon tea,' i.e. a little champagne!" And while heading the CRIMSON, he refused to stop running the list of men who made the various clubs. (The next year's editors stopped "that concession to snobbery.") Democratic though he was, he remained a gentleman in the Roosevelt tradition...
...Snooks Kelly's Eagles, the game was a sad awakening. The inexperienced B.C. team had only its indomitable hustle to stop the Crimson from embarrasing it beyond recognition. And the Eagles, with a schedule almost as difficult as the varsity's, seems doomed to a losing season for the second time in 20 years...
...Council then voted that the Traffic Board investigate the need for a stop sign at the intersection of Bow and Plympton Sts., a scene of many accidents and near-accidents recently...
...fashion, hoped to squeeze him even harder. Morse had no great worry that Silberstein could find a buyer for his Morse holdings, even if the court permitted him to sell, because the buyer would also be purchasing a lawsuit. But if Morse could persuade the court to make Silberstein stop buying, then the price of Morse stock might well continue to fall and drain Silberstein of cash until he is forced to settle on Morse's terms...
...falls in love with the sergeant's daughter (Natalie Wood), but the sarge does not think the colonel is good enough for his girl. So one day at the base he chews the C.O. out and threatens to quit the Air Force if the thing doesn't stop. The colonel turns pale. The general turns pale. They realize only too well that without the sarge the preparation of the B-52 for combat will be seriously delayed, and without the B-52 ... In short, it is all pretty silly in an amiable...