Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense counsel that he was "going to be limited" in presenting evidence. Later she cut him short with a refusal to hear more of his witnesses-and then deleted it from the record. She practically forced the defendant to take the stand, ordered her to "get up" and "stop arguing." But from the revised record Magistrate Norris had also edited these judicial imperatives. The defendant was convicted, sent to the work house for 100 days...
...that if such an international commission should deny the sole guilt of Germany and her allies as set forth in the Treaty of Versailles (and most historians do deny it as they also deny her complete innocence) Germans would have what might seem to them a legitimate excuse to stop paying reparations...
...floated down slowly, steadily at the same angle, tail high in normal flying attitude. More remarkable, the pilot's white-gloved hands could be seen upraised above his head as the craft touched the ice-coated surface, bounced a few times and was brought to a stop by footbrakes. The plane had landed itself...
...times. The men he was playing against were the best chess players in Manhattan, but he had begun to win. Although he made 50 moves to every one by his opponents, he often got around the square before a team was ready for him. He. for his part, would stop at a table, glance at the 64 squares, tap his finger once or twice on the edge of the board, and move. Always he attacked, usually with his favorite strategy-some variation of the queen s pawn opening. Twice he won games with a curious plan called the "Hollandish" opening...
...twistings too lewd for fastidious eyes. A modified version of the rumba, the danzon, is the craze in Havana, a potential craze in the U. S. It has easy, lazy steps and, in its authentic form, an interim of a minute or so when the tempo changes and dancers stop for conversation or for the lady to sway...