Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Says Mrs. Hicks: "I defy any of the civil rights leaders to prove that any of our neighborhood schools are inferior." When Negroes protest that this is the old "separate but equal" argument, she retorts: "Stop banging on our door-the real problem is housing." She feels misunderstood. "In every one of the major cities the civil rights leaders have found a scapegoat. If it has to be me, so be it. My conscience is clear...
Movement casued by the earth's rotation is so slight that even the smallest countermovement can overwhelm it: in the ordinary bathtub, water will swirl out either way-usually in the same direction it was swirled in. Even if allowed to sit enough to stop the force of its inward swirl, the water's natural rotational movement will often be overcome by air currents, uneven heating, surface tension or irregularities in the shape of its container...
...blue-and-white bus screeched to a stop outside Houston's Astrodome, with its cargo of the hottest - and angriest - team in sport. "C'mon, dammit!" yelled Manager Herman Franks. "Go get 'em! Sic 'em! Sic 'em!" The San Francisco Giants leaped to their feet and dashed for the door. " Kill!" screamed Outfielder Len Gabrielson "Kill! Kill! Kill!" It sounded pretty funny for a base ball team. But the Houston Astros learned to believe it. The Giants scored a run in the fourth inning, another in the fifth - and with the score tied...
...easy lengths, at Arlington Park; in Arlington Heights, Ill. Owned by Raymond Guest, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, the three-year-old colt, win ner of the Preakness Stakes, led most of the way to score his ninth victory in twelve starts this year. Tom Rolfe's next stop: France, and the $150,000-added Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe...
That pattern began to take shape almost as soon as Maryland-born Ed Carter quit the May Co. in 1946 to join Broadway (he took a $10,000 salary cut in return for stock options). His first move was to stop construction of a small new branch, double its size (and cost) and convert it into the national prototype of regional shopping centers with ample parking, underground deliveries, competing stores in the same complex. Unable to invade the rich San Francisco market directly, Carter doubled his sales by merging with Hale Bros later bought up the Dohrmann Hotel Supply chain...