Word: stemmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China problem thus reverts to where it was before the Lop Nor blast -how to stem Peking's slow erosion of the Western position in Asia...
...locked, arms carefully flexed, he poised to driver, ah, maybe it was supposed to be the other way around. Well, anyway, there wasn't a ball in sight, and as the columnist in the London Daily Mail observed, "I've never heard of a golfer shoving the stem of his pipe into the roof of his mouth during a swing!" Harry S. Truman and Dwight...
...leading banker, urban renewer, celebrated big game hunter and U.S. Army lieutenant general (ret.). A G.M. director, Mellon owns 240,000 shares, most of which he bought when he diversified his family's investments shortly after World War II. Next to him, with 155,-852 shares that stem from his family's sale of one of Canada's biggest auto manufacturing firms to G.M. in 1918, is R. (for Robert) Samuel McLaughlin of Oshawa, Ont. Though he is 93, McLaughlin still puts in several hours a day as chairman of G.M. of Canada Ltd., likes to show...
...that might jeopardize years of patient progress toward lower tariffs. Wilson's rebuttal was contained in his next major policy pronouncement, a detailed White Paper emphasizing that the solution to Britain's economic ills does not lie in "oldfashioned, restrictionist ideas," as he puts it, but in stem-to-stern reform of backward industries and restrictive labor practices...
Even when Johnson condescends to an indirect retort, his strictures against "the voices of extremism" raise no enthusiasm. The lack of response does not stem from disagreement with Johnson, but rather from the fact that most Americans are so overwhelmingly behind him that his philosophical differences with Goldwater seem little more than irrelevant abstractions...