Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Kenny's face and Kenny's voice that I first heard the words, The President is dead.' Mr. Kilduff entered and said to Lyndon, 'Mr. President.' " Lady Bird recalled the tense drive from the hospital to the airport. "Lyndon said to stop the sirens. We drove along as fast as we could. I looked up at a building and there already was a flag at half-mast. I think that is when the enormity of what had happened first struck me." Of the wait in the cabin of Air Force One before the takeoff...
...clear last night what effect McCann's resignation might have on legislative efforts to stop or delay the construction of the underpasses...
...couldn't stop kinds from wanderin here this afternoon," one green lady said to another. "They said they wanted to see what an opera looked like. And then they liked it so much they wanted to stay...
...paid for his CRIMSON subscription by December 9 will be forced to look for Crime in the streets, for delivery to his door will stop...
Bombast aside, however, O'Hara's decision to stop writing short stories for a while seems wise. The Horse Knows the Way (the title has overtones of weariness and self-mockery) is his fourth large collection of short stories in four years. O'Hara's imagination is astonishingly agile, and his view of society and psychology is much broader than it is generally supposed to be. These stories, taken by themselves, have the sting of fresh work by a fine writer. But he has written so many stories that his fresh, vigorous writing is debased...