Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still faithful wife: "I work with my husband. He has bought a bicycle. This week I shall buy a sewing machine. After that, we'll give up gold mining." "I'll buy good things to eat, and some new clothes," said another. "Then I'll stop...
...brains. I could not eat or sleep or even make love to my wife." Next morning he rushed from his house to that of the Mafia chief. The chief was gone, so he killed the chief's mother instead. An elderly couple approaching on the street tried to stop him as he left the house, so Serafino killed them both. Of the five people Serafino killed that day, only one was a member of the Mafia. "I wanted to destroy all my enemies," he told the police, "but fate turned against...
...STOP-by Mike Quill...
...under 30, found that 10,000 held other jobs, checking in supermarkets, clerking in clothing stores, selling insurance, etc. Among the married, the proportion ranged up to 75%. No matter how much, within reason, teacher salaries were raised,; the officials concluded, there would still be moonlighting. But most moonlighters stop when they have the extra money they need...
...Minute's Wait, the longest and best of the lot, is a back-thwacking, shillyshally riot of slapstick. A train-a gruesome Irish hybrid of the Toonerville Trolley and a Long Island Railroad local -pulls into Dunfaill for a minute's stop. Its motley passengers immediately spill out into the station bar and some hilarious vignettes. To make room for a goat, a bewildered British couple are demoted from their first-class compartment into third, there to rub insensitive feelers with a slithering mess of outraged Irish lobsters. A sweater-girl (full-blown by Maureen Connell) snares...