Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never make a speech unless you feel you have something really worthwhile to say; then say it, and having said it, stop talking...
Behind 35 to 31 with only six minutes to go the Crimson forces rallied to stop the much vaunted speedy Lion offense and to forge into the lead to win in a thrilling finish...
...second half also started slowly, but the Harvard team set up shots for Finegan, Buckley, and Lutz, and the result was a five point lead, which the Lions proceeded to erase. Then Columbia exhausted itself in running up its score, only to stop...
...next to a kind steward, who rubbed my back and was wonderfully sympathetic. I was feeling by this time that I really didn't mind terribly if I was drowned, if only the damned boat would stop bucking about for half a minute. Then I think I must have slept (I remember using two Lascars for a pillow, and thinking them an extremely good one), for when I looked up again there was the light, but this time it was bigger and closer. And then I saw that there were two lights. By God, that was a good sight...
...flower petals; coffee from roasted coconut shreds; dried grass instead of tobacco-and their clothes were getting ragged. They were in dire need of wheat flour, sugar, lard, potatoes, matches and all kinds of processed supplies. Worst of all, they feared disease. So, when the ship indicated it would stop, they eagerly gathered up the leaf baskets, wood carvings, woven hats and bird feathers, which are their dollars, quarters, dimes and nickels, and stood by their longboats in the crescent of Bounty...