Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abroad," said he, "remains in the grip of unreasoning and undiscriminating fear of all kinds of nuclear tests. The voice of this fear seems to have carried the day against the voice of reason and fact. Our Government seems to believe that it has a popular mandate to stop nuclear tests. The present muddle of public opinion was caused by bad leadership, or confused leadership, or no leadership...
Frondizi decided it was time to throw away the carrot and use the stick. He won the support of the armed forces by agreeing to stop wooing Peronistas. Then, by radio, he made his "final plea" for an end to the strike, blaming "Communists" and "political groups who believe it is possible to restore the ousted dictatorship." When the plea failed, Frondizi acted. He fired Peronista-Wooer Frigerio. declared a 30-day state of siege, ordered a nationwide roundup of strike leaders. Within a few hours, 468 Peronistas and Communists were in jail...
...lout in the ninth-grade "adjustment class" threatened to "fix" Allen for waking him up in class. Other teachers called the boy psychotic; one predicted: "That kid will kill somebody some day. We hope to God it isn't a teacher." Said the dean of boys: "You should stop and consider the boy's condition before you wake him. Some of these kids stay out all night on benders and need the sleep the next day." Lapsing into the tone of breathless outrage chronic in newspaper exposes, Allen wrote: "I was stunned. Was this a junior high school...
With Bowl selection committees studying form charts and showing up at key games around the U.S., a whole lot of candidates could not stand the pressure, blew a good share of their hopes in a series of big upsets. Rice could not stop downtrodden (3-5) Texas A. & M., took a 28-21 licking that dimmed its Cotton Bowl hopes. Southern Methodist, another Cotton Bowl candidate, lost to anemic (2-6) Arkansas 13-6. Pittsburgh fell out of the postseason picture by losing 14-6 to a Nebraska team that had dropped five straight. Georgia Tech's prospects were...
...following article is offered to both these worlds. To the people who care strongly for the Clubs, it is offered not in hopes that they will stop caring, but as an attempt to describe some of the problems and practical difficulties confronting their Clubs today. And to those who do not care, it is offered not because they ought to care, but because Harvard's Final Clubs represent a fascinating and probably unique attempt to preserve, in an American college, the standards of "gracious living" and a slowly withering "aristocracy...