Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they didn't want to talk much about Saturday. "We'll need three touchdowns to look like anything against Princeton." Dockery said "You don't talk about holding them down. How do you stop Charlie Gogolak, who hasn't had a field goal attempt blocked all season?" He sighed...
...gourd of palm wine. Then, juiced up, they take a machete and go off to the fields to work all day. At night they come back, eat some foutou, and empty another gourd of palm wine. Then they are happy--and sleep well. The sub prefect once tried to stop the drinking of palm wine, they told me. All the police were alerted, and men who passed on the roads carrying the huge
...earth are within human powers to solve. Reliance upon the tenuous assistance of a celestial company can only dilute man's efforts and impede progress. It has been said, however, that God must be invented. If this is true, as it probably is, let's stop trying to invent the wrong kind. Above all, let's understand that we are part of the God-making process. A God may emerge a billion years from now, and if he does, some of his genes will certainly be the creation of man's intelligence today...
...trees, and clung to flagpoles around the airport building. More than 6,000 of them were squeezed in alight mass, hemmed in on one side by a 12-ft. wire fence, on the other by a cordon of police and their dogs. When the R.A.F. Comet whistled to a stop and the chubby, unsmiling man appeared at the cabin door, they loosed a thundering cheer. "Mambokadzi tinoda nyi-ka yehu!" roared the black Rhodesians who had come to greet Harold Wilson last week. "Your Majesty the Queen, we want our country...
...stop to talk to Jeff Tarr, Dave Crump, or Doug Ginsberg for a few minutes, you'll find them fairly conservative human beings--perfectly capable of expressing doubts about the good sense of abolishing the philibuster in the Senate of letting Cliffies into Lamont...