Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rocks. In London, after a court ordered him to stop cars from coming to his pub because of the noise they made on the cobblestone street, Geoffrey Bernerd hired three rickshas to transport his customers...
Tinker to Evers to Chance. In Chicago, transit authority detectives spied Robert Hinton picking a pocket at a crowded bus stop, held off long enough to let Franklin Palmer pick Hinton's pocket, then arrested both...
Crashing Bore. In El Centro, Calif., convicted of hit-and-run driving, Luz Vera explained why he did not stop his car: "I didn't know anyone in the other...
...waiting list of top-priority defense contractors. Yet steel users stood solidly behind the industry. Said District Manager L. M. Spicer of Los Angeles' Ceco Steel Products Corp.: "This country is going to be out of the steel business if something isn't done to stop spiraling prices. I'm glad the steel industry has finally decided to stand by its guns...
...status faster than a garbage can in his foyer, the prolific (up to 50,000 seeds a plant) weed has become a neighborhood problem, like juvenile delinquency; if not snuffed out in one spot. it quickly spreads to another. Yet it is almost impossible to stop: digging only exposes more seeds, poison is often ineffective or kills other grasses, mowing only conditions crab grass to produce its seeds closer to the ground...