Word: stemmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mushroom Stem. In Goshen, Ind., Elkhart County Sheriff Woody Caton heard about a tornado on his police radio at home. He ran for his car and drove toward a trailer park directly in the twister's path. He got there just after the tornado passed over. "God, what a sight!" he reported. "It was an unbelievable mess. Ninety-two trailers had been completely leveled. Another dozen were upended. Trailers were ripped from their frames, squashed and twisted. Some were tossed onto the highway. Everyone I saw was covered with blood. There wasn't a thing left...
...each day summarized in a five-page, top-secret intelligence paper sent to the White House for Lyndon Johnson to read. It all seems impossible; yet there is widespread agreement that Raborn can do it if anyone can. The only doubts expressed about his appointment stem from the fact that he has had no experience whatever in intelligence work per se. Yet even the doubters admit that the CIA needs an administrator more than it needs a sort of 007 master...
...welfare system: "The tragedy of relief is that it has taken away from people the drive to work. I deplore a system that regards the indiscriminate handing out of checks as its prime function, that subsidizes the lazy and immoral home with the tax payer's dollar." To stem Philadelphia's juvenile crime (up 27% last year), Judge Stout, who is married but childless, advocates taking children away from relief homes and raising them in public dormitories where they can be urged to buckle down to schoolwork...
...housing bill this year. An amendment strengthening Colorado's housing act was approved by the state legislature last week, thanks largely to strong clerical pressure. This summer, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York is vastly expanding a tutorial program in Harlem, run by professional educators, to help stem the school dropout rate; the schools will be open to children of all faiths, will operate in 30 centers...
...Portugal, the cash is hardly worth the loss in manpower. Whole villages have been left without able-bodied men, large tracts of farm land are lying idle, and the Portuguese press has begun to warn that tens of thousands of marriageable women face futures of spinsterhood. Salazar hoped to stem the tide last year by allowing a limited number of laborers to emigrate to France legally. Some 20,000 applicants left under the new labor scheme; but nearly 30,000 others took the illegal road with the smugglers...