Word: stem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail, 55, redheaded, stem-winding N.Y. Yankees boss; and Jean Bennett Wanamaker, 35, his pretty secretary; both for the second time; in Baltimore...
...Gertrude Stem...
...tedious parts of "Over Twenty-One" stem from two basic facets of the plot: PM is a very earnest, liberal, crusading paper, and getting that idea across, without mentioning names, involves throwing around a lot of loose (and slow) talk about what we're fighting for. In addition, there's the problem of showing how technical and complicated are the tasks faced by over-aged destroyers. All this leads to tedium, though it's certainly kept down to a minimum--nothing like "Decision" or "The Searching Wind...
Meanwhile, landing craft from Mariveles nosed around Corregidor to the south shore. As the assault waves charged up the beach of San José Bay, the Japs were trapped between airborne and seaborne forces. Jap resistance was as tough as usual, but there were not enough Japs to stem the rush...
...German people heard that industrial Silesia was lost; that the "Bolsheviks" had pierced Brandenburg, Berlin's home province; that the enemy had cut off East Prussia (see below). The lowly Volkssturm was called out to help stem the tide. The westward flood of refugees hampered the movement of army units to the front, forcing Heinrich Himmler to use his SS men as traffic controllers...