Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator John Kennedy, with all the power vested in him, cannot stop the hoodlumism in the arrogant Hoffa's Teamsters Union, then he should not even be considered for any higher office...
...Receptor Co.'s plant (which makes electronic equipment) to deliver 500 gallons of nitric acid. Driver Benjamin Sidla hooked up his hose to a pipe indicated by employees, started pumping. After a few minutes, a man rushed up from the basement, yelled to Sidla: "You'd better stop. The fumes are terrible down there." Somehow the nitric acid had been diverted into a 3,000-gallon tank containing hydrochloric. Result: royal water, which was already beginning to dissolve the tank's rubber lining, eating away a flange where the pipe entered, and emitting noxious fumes...
...Iowa road a posse stopped Iowa's corn-fed Poet Paul Engle, warned him that two jailbirds, self-sprung from a nearby prison farm, might be lurking around Engle's summer home, a rambling old stone house near Cedar Rapids. Quipped Engle's car companion, daughter Mary, 18: "Oh, we'll probably find them at our house!" They did. The fugitives, a forger and an auto thief, had already held Engle's wife for nearly five hours, also had daughter Sara, 14, at kitchen-knifepoint. In the three hours that followed, the resourceful Engle family...
...shooters, and silver-plated rifles were mounted on the trunk lid. Chromed horse heads studded the I dashboard, and the bucket seats were up holstered in the soft white leather of unborn calf. The chunky, grey-thatched driver was dressed to match. Inside the lot, he braked to a stop, grabbed an armful of fancy jeans, vests and jackets from the back seat, and bustled busily into the dressing room of TV's Scott (Slingshot Slade) Brady. "Nudie," self-made giant of the western clothing trade, was merely delivering the goods...
...owned the Mona Lisa would you stop going to art galleries and museums and looking at other paintings? What's wrong with looking...