Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would-be extremists alike. "This had to happen someplace in the South," said he. "It was inevitable that there was going to be a plan, worked out, approved and accepted, for gradual integration. It was inevitable that somewhere a governor, under pressure of extreme segregationists, was going to stop integration by calling out the National Guard...
...Miami on the eve of the convention, opposition candidates scurried about trying to throw up a stop-Hoffa united front. (One powerful new contender: Chicago Vice President William A. Lee.) But Jimmy Hoffa kept his pose as an unstoppable front runner, predicted confidently that he would win on the first ballot. Despite suits, threats of expulsion and all the revelations of the McClellan committee, it seemed, the Teamsters were still going to have the opportunity of replacing tarnished President David Daniel Beck with smirched and smirking James Riddle Hoffa...
...administrative club held over their heads if a mild sort of chaos is to be avoided. At Cornell the power of administration has been so clouded over by the "Freedom and Responsibility" catchphrase that chaos has grown steadily on campus. The administration has finally decided that it must stop...
...unless the right wing starts fighting Democrats instead of Ike Republicans. Visiting Chicago last week for what Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton had proclaimed as "George Humphrey Day," the ex-Treasury Secretary spoke at a fund-raising banquet in his honor, volunteered a Dutch uncle's advice. Stop complaining about little things, he admonished, and start appreciating big accomplishments...
Tactical Diversion. In Rochester, after Charles Chiarenza was awakened by loud pounding on the kitchen door of his ground-floor apartment, sleepily groped for the light, investigated and found no one there, he returned to the bedroom just in time to see-but not to stop-a hand reach through the window, snatch his trousers and wallet...