Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Efficiency Check. Canada's present unofficial hangman learned his trade and adopted his name from an earlier Hangman Ellis* who died in 1938. The earlier Ellis worked in a frock coat and striped trousers and sometimes sported a gardenia in his lapel. Occasionally he handed a stop watch to a newsman attending a hanging, so as to check on his own efficiency. His successor, an Ontario farmer, goes in for no such display...
...Stop It!" For seven rounds, the fast-stepping Texan fought rings around his opponent, swarthy George Small of Brooklyn. Roach was so far ahead on points that he could not help winning-if he just stayed out of trouble. But in the eighth round Small let go a desperation right and it crashed flush on Roach's jaw. It ripped the flesh inside his mouth and blood gushed from his lips. Roach's legs buckled; staggering, slack-jawed and glassy-eyed, he hung...
Then a vicious right put Roach down for a count of nine. Even Manhattan's bloodthirsty boxing fans seemed to sense what was about to happen and began yelling: "Stop it! Stop it!" Referee Frank Fullam did stop it-after another punch had sent Roach sprawling to the deck. By then it was too late...
...score reached gall, Minneapolis spurted ahead. Two of its big guns-Mikan and Vern Mikkelsen-were seesawing the Trotters dizzy from a double pivot. At the half, Minneapolis was breezing along in front, 40-29. Although the Globetrotters put two and sometimes three men on Mikan, they could not stop the big fellow, and loose-jointed "Sweetwater" Clifton, the Trotters' pivotman center, fouled out trying...
...victory did not stop the committee. Once started on their fight they were determined to keep going. They hired lawyers, began demanding that the super intendent, the school principal, and the entire school board be dismissed. "When religion gets into schools like this," they cried, "something is wrong." At week's end, they were preparing to take the matter to court...