"I'm looking at the main road and it's a little stop and go.
"In the summer there were always a lot of people; Vevey was on the road to almost any place in Europe, and Le Pâquis was such a pleasant little stop," she wrote, referring to their house.
Listening to Matilda sing "Even if you're little, you can do a lot, you/ Mustn't let a little thing like little stop you", I was suddenly eight years old again, cracking open the pages of Dahl's book and feeling an instant connection with his bright, brave and bookish protagonist.
We face the jarring prospect that some of our top scientists may move to England, where they won't face the same strangling curbs on stem cell research, which is bound to go forward even without President Bush holding up his little "Stop" sign.
BD: We need to build into our daily life little stop signs.
Saro-Wiwa's execution caused an international outcry, but did little stop the march of economic "freedom" in Nigeria.
And then I moved up to Santa Cruz, California, and I was trying to get into UC Santa Cruz, but I didn't have enough credits, so I did a little stop over at Cabrillo College.
Then, little by little, stop the assistance.
