Word: stemmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instance, in 1961, when they tried to spread the cold war to Africa during the Congo crisis. TIME doubted then that Khrushchev was prepared for "really serious intervention" and, as this week's cover story makes clear, the continent's major problems still do not stem from Communism. And of course, the Russians tried again in Cuba. After they were decisively repulsed, an event described by Britain's Harold Macmillan as one of the great turning points of history, we noted: "The cold war will never be the same again." The change was formalized in the nuclear...
Taylor explained yesterday that his action applied only to this year and did not stem from dissatisfaction with the interview system as a whole. He added that he was "quite sure" that no other Masters were planning to follow his example...
...part by a proposal, currently under study, to reduce the two hours a week of religious instruction given in high schools. A shocking idea, implied the doctors, insisting that Christian doctrine, especially as it applies to adultery, must be stressed even more as just about the only way to stem growing sexual license. Said one of the signers, Dr. Sigurd Elvin: "Young people in Sweden are not happy. They lack the Ten Commandments in their upbringing...
...Weaker Sex. Northwestern University Law Professor Jack Coons, who readily admits that he is personally prejudiced against women lawyers, suggests that such qualms today stem largely from the fact that men's egos are more easily bruised. Their resentment of female competition, he says, "might be fear of the embarrassment of being beaten by a woman in a toe-to-toe struggle. Men are the weaker sex in terms of pride. In medicine, everyone wants the same result. In the law, someone has to lose whenever a case goes to judgment." Women fare better in less strenuous appellate work...
...system stretches 1,300 miles from Montreal to Duluth and links 22 Great Lake ports with the Atlantic, but it has failed to attract the expected commercial traffic. The Seaway's troubles stem from a combination of engineering shortcomings and poor financial planning. For one thing, the Seaway is too shallow to accommodate large freighters. Most of its ports are ill-equipped to load and unload ships, and passage through the 15 sets of locks is tedious and slow; the average ship takes ten days to travel from Chicago to Montreal. Because the waterways freeze over for four months...