Word: stemmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Risk & Riposte. Many U.S. military men naturally want to tighten the screws, chiefly by increased bombing. Stung by the criticism that air power has failed to stem North Vietnamese infiltration, they argue that, even though prohibited from hitting the North's most important targets, they have managed to knock out two-thirds of its petroleum supply, to keep 250,000 people constantly at work repairing bomb damage, and to deny Communist units 50% of the supplies that combat soldiers normally need...
...chosen by a faculty committee to head the Mississippi school, that Morse made the enterprising decision to take a year off for training at Yale Law School. During that year he came to believe that "many of the problems which plague the University of Mississippi and our state stem from a provincial outlook-our students are accustomed to examining every question in the light of its impact upon Mississippi culture rather than taking a broader view...
...ugly parade through downtown Hanoi, captured U.S. prisoners of war, handcuffed in pairs, were subjected to the insults of howling mobs. And the Communists tried to stem "the Rolling Thunder," as U.S. strikes over the North are code-named, by unleashing all the tricks of its air-defense system: SAM missiles, curtains of conventional flak, and forays by MIG-21 fighters...
Along Chicago's volatile Northwest Side, boredom pangs were as palpable as the prickling humidity. On Division Street, main stem of the barrio that holds the majority of Chicago's Puerto Rican population, people drooped languidly from tenement windows and crowded the front stoops, ducking for cover during thundershowers that drenched the area off and on all day. In any other minority neighborhood, the cop on the beat might have been nervous, for the day (it was Sunday), the mood and the weather afforded the classic setting for a racial explosion. But Division Street, as always, had been...
...National Institute of Mental Health. And he vowed to take steps to dry up sources of lysergic acid, the basic ingredient from which LSD is made, and which is itself far more complicated to produce. Domestic production of lysergic acid is now strictly regulated, and the Government plans to stem imports...