Word: stem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five out of the nine council members said yesterday that Councilor Alfred Vellucci's plan to permit alternate-side parking on streets wider than 40 feet might stem the tide of illegally parked cars which now hinders the police from successfully enforcing the present ordinances...
...neck. Through the bag they circulated ice water. When Hickey was chilled enough so that circulation could be almost stopped without fear of damage to his brain, the surgeons opened both his aorta and his heart. Through a slit in the aorta they slipped the stem of the tee-shaped gadget, then worked this down into the heart wall until its head plugged the blowout. After trimming off excess stem, they sewed the plug in place. Then they stitched up the incisions, closed Hickey's chest and let him thaw...
Admitting Eisenhower's personal popularity and Stevenson's "egg-head past, he maintained that only Republican policies stem from consistent principles...
...content of the course, Slack said yesterday, is not fixed. "The reading and lectures," he said, "will stem directly from the experiences of the students in contact with the patients and each other." He added that the course was not intended as preparation for professional work...
...dressing rooms, a poor piano, and the lighting system did not fit American plugs. Nevertheless, opening night last week saw an eager audience. On the program: three examples of a relatively new and typically American type of musical theater-the small, intimate, mostly humorous opera. First came Gertrude Stem's In a Garden, with music by Manhattan's Meyer Kupferman, a Steinishly childlike spoof on royalty that was the success of the evening. ("Redolent, that's the word for the music," approved one Edinburgh matron. "It was the essence of nostalgia.") Next came Sweet Betsy from Pike...