Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over 100,000 men. By so doing, the United States would take up where Britain left off--aiding the present Greek government to root out and destroy the EAM forces in the north and to supply the Greek and Turkish governments with the economic and military wherewithal to stem the dynamic onrush of the Soviet Union towards the Dardanelles...
...There was no consolation to be drawn from the fact that unions, in exercising their power, might also destroy themselves, as in the case of the recent 87-day strike of the Newspaper Guild against J. David Stern's Camden Courier and Post and Philadelphia Record. A disgusted Stem sold his papers; 580 strikers were left high...
Other store basements sell only low-priced items, which may or may not be bargains. Filene's basement sells only bargains, not all of them low-priced. It has sold $4,250 mink coats for $1,950. It once bought pipes with flanges on the stem, sold them to men without teeth. Its corset department does its fittings in the aisles, but it sells some 260,000 corsets a year...
...torpedo shook C.M.U. from stem to stern, although C.M.U. was not yet sunk and Harry Bridges and comrades were not yet licked. Bridges was on his way to Honolulu to negotiate a longshoremen's contract. But in the Manhattan headquarters of N.M.U., Curran's Communist pals, now his bitter, open enemies, scurried around like enraged locusts, shrilling propaganda...
Traveling Home. Advancing years have sapped none of Hammond's enthusiasm. His latest love: a 20-ton trailer, which he designed and built. It has a kitchen, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, its own water supply. From stem to stern, it teems with gadgets, from an intercom to an electric dishwasher...