Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BRIGADIER AND THE GOLF WIDOW, by John Cheever. In these chilling short stories, the fall from corporate grace, the merger, the personal scandal that might stop the money, are the demons Cheever uses to speculate about the fears of salaried suburbanites...
...corn, or just plain tasteless-as in Los Angeles, when he referred to "the man who watches over us in heaven this afternoon, John Fitzgerald Kennedy." At one point, he had talked so long that Lady Bird sent a note to the podium telling him it was time to stop. In Pittsburgh, people in the back rows began sneaking out halfway through his address. In Milwaukee, Lyndon missed his lunch, made up for it by stopping at William Balsmider's grocery and asking for "a little hunk of baloney" and half a dozen peppermint sticks. He had to borrow...
...Fred Harris was less of a name than Bud Wilkinson, the former Oklahoma University coach. But Democrat Harris, 33, had "my friend" Lyndon Johnson's 100,000-vote margin blocking for him downfield. And that, plus a good record as a state senator, was enough to stop Republican Wilkinson. Harris won with a margin of 14,000 of the state's 900,000 senatorial votes, will complete the last two years of the term of the late U.S. Senator Robert Kerr...
Were you just about to pay your fall tuition and your Coop bill? Stop...
...first year repaying campaign debts and favors. At mid-term--straight with the world--he steps courageously forward and advances his legislative program of "reform and progress." The second year is devoted to retreating hurriedly from the program and to acquiring new debts, all in a headlong attempt to stop making enemies. The attempt, which invariably infuriates the voters, always fails. And Massachusetts elects a new Governor, hoping that this time he will be a "strong...