Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clothes and tasty meals (sent in from restaurants), but the police would not admit Igea, who wanted to bring him some "little cakes." She complained bitterly: "I'm lonely in this big apartment. Charley was always so gentle and kind. Why, oh, why don't they stop this persecution...
Webster: I don't see how we're going to progress in this art unless the public buys receivers. If we put out something that says, "Do not buy anything now until you get UHF . . ." everything is going to stop...
...ordeal of a dangerous, 3,200-mile over-water flight, made necessary by India's pro-Indonesian ban on landings by Dutch aircraft. For the trip back, Foreign Editor Charles Gratke of the Christian Science Monitor cabled Prime Minister Pandit Nehru and got permission for the newsmen to stop at Calcutta and Bombay, with a side jog north to New Delhi. At the Indian capital, they found Nehru too busy for a press conference. So most of the newsmen went shopping, bought jewelry and Kashmir shawls to take home to their wives, teakwood boats for their children. That evening...
Shouts of "Stop it!" and "Rubbish!" were raised in the audience. Blurted a visiting conductor: "I think this is a public scandal...
Last week, CAA acted. Charging Strato-Freight with overloading and persistent violation of safety regulations (e.g., it had ignored a badly frayed flap follow-up cable), CAA ordered the airline to stop flying. It was the first time that CAA which usually leaves such police action to the Civil Aeronautics Board, had grounded an overseas airline...