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Word: stops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love gave to me," sing the carolers-and then everything goes haywire. "Four bars of soap," they trill, "three cans of peas, two breakfast foods, and some toothpaste on a pear tree." Later, they launch into another holiday favorite: "Dashing through the snow in a 50-foot coupe." They stop to admire a cigarette-ad Santa Claus with a tattoo on each arm-one reading "Merry Christmas," the other "Less Tar"-and then jangle through Jingle Bells with a cash register clanking in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIN PAN ALLEY: Let's Run It up the Fir Tree | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...injured back, Robertson might have eclipsed his own Madison Square Garden scoring record of 56 points, made last year against Seton Hall. Said N.Y.U. Coach Lou Rossini ruefully: "He's as great a basketball player as I've ever seen. I guess the only way to stop him would be to put four men on him and let one guy cover the other four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big O | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...Connie Dierking, who had to be watched too. This year Dierking is gone, and Robertson is a marked man. Opposing teams can afford to take outlandish liberties in concentrating their defenses on him. But with the season in its infancy, nobody has figured a way to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big O | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...Lois' releases invoked such attention from newsmen. Sniffed the American Motel Magazine: "The lowest form of humor." Fumed Executive Editor Bill Powell of the Paducah (Ky.) Sun-Democrat: "If you birds have no more respect for your place, or no more judgment than this, please stop sending us stones." Mused amused Columnist Stan Windhorn of the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune: "In sheer honesty, we must express an admiration for this curious bit of candor, but from the practical point of view we must confess that it seems a terribly long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Found Weekend | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...water is circulated. The chilling cuts down blood flow, and also the secretion of gastric juices to a negligible level so that they can no longer digest the stomach wall at the ulcer site. In ten patients it has taken an average of 25 cold-stomach hours to stop the bleeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The A.M.A. & the Aged | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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