Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of year to vent our petty grievances. Typing is not allowed on mid-year and final examinations. Too many courses give examinations. There are no STOP signs at the corner of Plympton and Bow Streets. The tennis courts are in deplorable condition. The food, even in Adams and Dunster Houses, is wretched. Only one appointment has been made in the field of Geography. There are no permanent appointments in History and Lit. The water coming from both the hot and cold taps in Moors Hall is hot. Elsie's is too crowded. Animals still roam the streets of Cambridge...
Close Reason. Eisenhower was by no means content to stop with a balanced budget. As the kickoff to a series of specific moves, he asked Congress to revise the Full Employment Act of 1946 so as to reduce pressures for inflationary measures. With that proposal, in perhaps the most closely reasoned of all his economic reports, the President of the U.S. set forth the standards for an era of prudent affluence: "To make reasonable price stability an explicit goal of federal economic policy, coordinate with the goals of maximum production, employment, and purchasing power...
...breaking point came early this month. An anonymous middle-aged man raised the standard of revolt, refused to budge when told to get off an Underground train that had come to a dead stop. He shouted: "It says on the front of the train that it is going to Dagenham East!" And, glaring around at his sheeplike fellow passengers, he added: "That is where we are all going, aren...
...paternal tones Kassem urged members of the Iraqi Students Union to stop wasting time on political activities (riots, etc.) and get back to their textbooks. Less paternally, he issued tough new orders to the Popular Resistance Force, the Red-infiltrated militia whose members have been careering through Baghdad making political "arrests." Henceforth, said Kassem, the P.R.F. would function only as a reserve force "under direct military orders," and any of its members who tried to interfere with "the freedom of citizens" would be subject to "the severest punishment." Explaining why his new orders were necessary, Kassem was warily unspecific...
...stole chickens to Batista himself, who shared with his cronies a 30% kickback on public-works contracts. Potbellied Chief of Staff Francisco Tabernilla and his family made off with the entire army retirement fund of $40 million. Havana storekeepers who wanted to attract crowds by having a bus-stop sign out front could get one any time-for a flat payment of $4,000 to traffic officials...