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Word: stops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott and Peter Sellers detonate the bitter laughs in Stanley Kubrick's comedy of terrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: may 8, 1964 | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...goes without saying that a lot can happen in the two months before the Republican convention. But as far as a stop-Goldwater movement is concerned, the best place for something to happen would certainly be in California. If it doesn't, then the Republican presidential race may be all over except for the convention shouting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The Man to Beat | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

Major argument in favor of left-foot braking is that (according to tests by Michigan State University) it reduces the braking time by three-tenths of a second, which means that a car doing 30 m.p.h. will stop 13 ft. sooner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: The Brake Debate | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

Resounding Belle. She took the abuse with gallantry and grace. In fact, as she said, "I abhor Hitler and Hitlerism." On one occasion when Hitler's Ambassador, Joachim von Ribbentrop, greeted her with the Nazi salute, she snapped: "Stop that nonsense with me!" During World War II, she ran Cliveden as a 1,600-bed hospital for wounded Canadian soldiers, also assisted her husband in his duties as Lord Mayor of Plymouth, which was savagely bombed. "You can kill us," she challenged the Nazis, "but you can't scare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Ginger Woman | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...week growling at the U.S. and doing his best to convince the world that he really means to shoot down a U-2 reconnaissance plane. Sipping a brandy-and-soda at a Japanese reception in Havana, he insistently told newsmen that he was willing to go to war to stop the U.S. from keeping an aerial eye on his Communist island. "We will prevent these flights to the limits of what our weapons can do," Castro said. And then, for the first time, he confirmed that he expects to get control of the 25 Soviet SAM-II rocket emplacements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: SAM's Song | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

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