Word: stem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rated as definite underdogs after last week's 12 to 0 defeat at the hands of Eliot, and having but two substitutes to alternate in a backfield already riddled with injuries, Adams maintained a 14 to 7 lead going into the fourth period but found themselves too exhausted to stem repeated Dunster thrusts at their goal line and had to settle for a draw...
This might have been cause for some lingering hope; but immovable Mr. Molotov, in a final bitter blast, denounced the conference from stem to stern, and stated that his country would ignore the conference balloting when the Big Four came to grips on the final texts. It was inadmissible, Mr. Molotov said in effect, that the West should gang up on the Soviet group by a mere mustering of votes...
...thinking smacks of Alice-in Wonderland in 1946. Western Europeans have shown little tendency to emigrate. Rather, the great mass of potential immigrants stem from Eastern Europe and seek no economic mecca but merely a simon simple escape from religious and political persecution. Objective tests have conclusively exposed the myth of racial superiority and inferiority. Thoroughly assimilated and educated, second generation Americans of Easttern and southern European stock have proved that previous environment, not race, accounted for the initially poor impressions made by their parents...
...Greece: a decisive majority (70%) for the return of King George. An Athens lawyer who voted for the King summed up the dilemma of many Greeks: "I feel I have betrayed everything I believed in for the past 33 years. But I believe bringing the King back may help stem Communism in Greece, so I voted...
...silence, peace's little men watched the instantaneous, incredible mushroom, the dark spurts of universal power, the shimmering bright column of the stem, the wall of ship-engulfing water. In silence, they left the theater...