Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rock, troopers drove off the crowd with swinging nightsticks, banned further assembly in the area by more than three people at a time. But since the ban, agitators have perfected subtler methods of tormenting Myers. They take turns each evening slamming a heavy mailbox door near his house, stop their automobiles to catcall or toot bugles...
...royal couple's black Lagonda, with Prince Philip at the wheel, swept up the driveway and pulled to a stop, the Queen Anne windows of the school were crammed with the curious faces of earlier arrivals. Placing a smart new hat with a blue C firmly on his head, Charles stepped up to the waiting headmaster at his mother's behest, raised the hat and shook hands with a firm...
Wesley arrived in Boston by happenstance. Ailing and discouraged at the failure of a tour of duty in Governor Oglethorpe's Georgia colony, he sailed for England, had to stop off at the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of stormy seas. When Wesley continued his journey a month later, he was still weak but in fine spirits. For the rest of his tumultuous life (before his death in 1788 he came to an uneasy rest halfway between Anglicanism, which he never renounced, and his brother's Methodism) Charles Wesley remembered the warm reception of his preaching in Boston...
...tide turns, there must be sufficient flexibility for money rates to be eased." Moreover, underdeveloped countries that rely on inflation in more advanced countries, particularly the U.S., to increase the price of their raw materials, are now doing so at their own peril. "If the countries do not stop their inflationary movements, they will probably not be able to rely on the U.S. to save them. The U.S. has arrested inflation...
...such authorities as C. Canby Balderston, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. If people become convinced that the Government intends to make inflation permanent, he says, an "inflation psychology" will corrupt all decisionmaking. Businessmen will not fear overexpansion because higher profits will bail them out. The public will stop buying life insurance and fixed-income bonds and scramble to buy land, commodities and equities, bidding up prices. Says Balderston: "The infant ceases to creep. It learns to walk, then run and finally gallop over the brink of the precipice" and bring the bust "which everyone agrees must be avoided...