Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something new been added to race-track parlance? . . . Twenty years ago every trainer on the continent used "Bill Daly." It was supposed to stem from a "bullring" jockey whose technique was to "get the hell away and get the hell home...
...stem the teardrops' yield...
...Battle. What next? The Communists would fight their ban. In a 15th-floor office on Rio's main-stem Avenida Rio Branco, moon-faced Communist Lawyer Sinval Palmeira clutched the multipage appeal he will present to the Supreme Tribunal. He had a diplomatic good word for the Yankees. "The U.S. Constitution," he said, "is helping me to write...
Loose pitching and fielding brought about the Adams downfall, with the Puritans scoring mostly unearned runs. Kirkland got off to a fast start, but was unable to stem the Lowell tide, when the Bellboys put across three big innings late in the game...
Poor fielding coupled with inadequate hitting downed the Bellboys. Although they scored early and often at the outset of the game, racking up a five-run lead at the end of three innings, they were unable to stem the tide of a five-run rally in the fourth by Dunster, which went on to score two runs in the fifth and sixth innings to put the game...