Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game, as far as the attack man is concerned, is to gain a stop on the man guarding him, by any one of a number of crafty maneuvers. Foremost of the offensive arts is "dodging," (see cut left) in which the man with the ball fakes his defender off balance and then spins past him. There are also a number of "brush plays" where one of more attackers stage a traffic jam which prevents the defenseman from keeping up with the ball carrier...
Last year, amid reams of newspaper ballyhoo, Davenport received the magnet for the machine--a magnet so strong that it could yank hammers out of people's hands and stop all the watches hear...
...facilities for lower income groups. The causes for this condition continue, most important being the high cost of building materials and capital, ancient and discriminatory building codes, and restrictive measures by unions and contractors. Wartime full employment pushed the shortage up to include middle priced housing, necessitating controls to stop soaring rents...
Giveaway radio outdid itself last week by showering diamonds, ermine and trips to Monte Carlo on an elderly Negro couple in Philadelphia. For correctly guessing the name of Stop the Music's martial mystery tune (The Navy and the Army, The Army and the Navy) Mrs. Julia Hubert, 58, and her husband, Benjamin, 75, a former Navy Yard employee, were promised $35,250 worth of prizes...
...Better or Worse. In Chicago, Mrs. Adeline C. Bryzek agreed to a reconciliation with her husband after he had promised to 1) wear a wedding ring at all times, 2) stop lending money to his relatives, 3) take her along whenever he goes fishing...