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Word: stops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back from India, he will lunch with the Shah of Iran, cruise from Athens to Toulon in a U.S. Navy cruiser to store up sun and strength for the Western summit at Paris Dec. 19-21. Last stop: Rabat, to visit with Morocco's King Mohammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Playing the Ace | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...light has been known to flick from red to green and hold for only 16 seconds-just long enough to let three left-turning cars through, and get the piled-up traffic rolling. Then its timer snaps through a quick-as-the-eye amber warning to a red stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGHWAYS: The Light That Never Fails | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...there was one waiter in Moscow who would turn down a tip nowadays, Nikolai Fedorovich Zavyalov, head of the Moscow Restaurant Trust, sighed: "Not one." Zavyalov confessed that a recent experiment of adding on a 4% service charge in Moscow restaurants (6% at the posh Praga) had failed to stop the under-the-teacup tribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Old Tribute | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

Sipping an all white ice cream soda in a campus snack bar, Mike the Knife (as the press had begun to call him) said his elbows were clean; too bad about Bates, but he just couldn't stop. U.S.C.'s Coach Don Clark backed up his man, said that McKeever had performed "no misconduct," had played a "clean but aggressive game." After all, the officials on the spot had not penalized U.S.C. on the questioned play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Too Rough for Football | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...other waves that travel in the same high duct of plasma, apparently started by electrified particles slamming in from the sun. The Signal Corps is continuing to study its newfound duct. But when its scientists are asked whether they hope to find practical uses in communication, their military chaperons stop the conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Waves Around the Earth | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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