Word: stop
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Once again, there was an inability to stop their power runners," Kinston said. "There were three Harvard guys wrapped around the legs of the guy who scored the second...
Modesty could not stop fans from either side from showing their loyalties. When a streaker wearing only boxer shorts ran across the field from the Harvard stands, three more from Yale promptly did the same...
...have played against God and won (he neglected to leave a record of the game), went quite mad. The last great practitioner of truth, Bobby Fischer, after winning the world championship in 1972, disappeared into some apocalyptic sect in California and had the fillings in his teeth removed to stop the KGB transmissions...
Meir Kahane never expected to die peacefully. "People are frightened by my message because they know in their hearts that it is true," he once said. "They can stop me, but they cannot change the truth...
...gaunt, intellectual Tadeusz Mazowiecki moves slowly and speaks diffidently on weekends-only campaign swings that are wedged into his prime-ministerial schedule. The paunchy trade unionist Lech Walesa, on the other hand, blitzes the country with almost daily campaign meetings, haranguing opponents and sweet-talking supporters at every stop...