Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd was exhausted, the gathering would break up, and almost every time his Russian listeners would contest for the right to pay his taxi fare back to his hotel. He tried not to let them pay, but on two occasions they succeeded in reaching the driver before he could stop them. "We made you stay so late, we want to thank you by paying your fare," they would tell...
...days to pack and harden, the metal can be removed, leaving a firm arch of snow like the roof of an Eskimo's igloo. One hundred miles of under-ice highway are now under construction between Thule and Fist Clench, and no blizzard that blows will stop the trucks that...
Reticent Americans. Buchwald's replies ran from the tersest reasons, e.g., "Suez," "John Foster Dulles," to full-scale defenses of Americans by British admirers. He concluded last week that Americans would be better liked in Britain if they "would stop spending money, talking loudly in public places, telling the British who won the war, chewing gum [and would] dress properly, throw away their cameras, move their air bases out of England, settle the desegregation problem, turn over the hydrogen bomb to Britain, put the American woman in her proper place, not export rock 'n' roll, and speak...
...stock dividends-and a cut in annuity payments -would shake public confidence in insurance. The Securities and Exchange Commission got into the act, contending that it had the power to supervise any such plan, and joined with the National Association of Securities Dealers in a test case to stop the sale of unregistered variable annuities by two small insurance companies...
...even at the risk of being haled before the Board of Admiralty for making mistakes. So independent were British admirals that Nelson's second-in-command, Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, greeted his commander's famed "England expects" message with the words: "I wish Nelson would stop signalling. We know well enough what we have...