Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since April 1, some 600 hippies-or pseudo hippies-have been arrested on rape, robbery and narcotics charges, or for violating park rules. When complaints began flooding city hall, Councilor Joseph F. Timilty took a look and protested: "Hippies are urinating, defecating and fornicating in the Common. This must stop...
...much as $25,000. Thus, the relief agencies can afford only one or two a week, and about 1,000 tons of their powdered milk and eggs, baby food and other supplies have piled up in Fernando Po, awaiting reshipment. Meantime, Gowon's agents are reportedly trying to stop flights by offering the pilots as much as $100,000 to hijack and sabotage the planes...
...this gave rise to certain stop-gap measures. Mayor Cavanagh set up a rumor-control service; anyone wishing to check out a story could dial a number for information. A group of businessmen called MUST (Men United for Sane Thought) placed ads in suburban newspapers and on radio and TV, urging their fellow citizens to keep cool and not to buy arms...
...Osco chain of drugstores and Boston's Turn-Style discount stores. Under Jewel, Osco has grown from 30 stores to 133, Turn-Style from four stores to nine. A growing number of these outlets now are situated under the same roof as grocery operations, providing shoppers with one-stop service for everything from canned peas to cameras, drug prescriptions to complete wardrobes...
Author Benchley, 52, son of Humorist Robert Benchley and himself a successful comic novelist (his book The Off-Islanders became The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming), is a careful tailor of dialogue and characterization. But by laboriously presenting stop-action, caseworker-like descriptions of his characters' psychological past, he unfortunately produces a general air more clinical than criminal, a climax that is more Gestalt than gothic, a final effect that evokes a quiet Oh, yes, instead of a stricken...