Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this form of the disease, rarer but far deadlier than spinal polio, the virus attacks the bulb or brain stem. The iron lung often will not work on bulbar polio because the patient's breathing is jerky. with an irregular rhythm; his intake and release of air cannot be synchronized with the iron lung's regular beat. But bulbar polio has one feature which fitted in well with Dr. Sarnoff's theory: it generally leaves the phrenic nerve undamaged...
Even as the one new thing around, Ken Murray's vaudeville is by no means a treat. Part of its fantastic Hollywood success may stem, indeed, from its being just the kind of flesh & blood show a movie metropolis can condescend...
...Europe's Christian Democratic politicians, whose emergence to leadership in the West is one of the Continent's striking postwar phenomena. His Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), together with its political counterparts in Italy, France, Belgium and The Netherlands, may well prove to be the force to stem the assault of Communism and to bring about Europe's regeneration. He states his political credo simply: "Germany can be reconstructed on a sound basis only if she declares herself wholeheartedly for the Christian world of the West and all it stands for." In her external relations, Adenauer sees Germany...
Grown best in the shade at 2,000 feet, ixbut (Euphorbia lancifolia) is a plant which exudes milky sap. It has dark green leaves marked with a white "V." The strength and dosage of ixbut are remarkably uniform: take five leaves or five sections of stem (about five grams) to brew a cup of tea; drink six cups...
...smaller than the Government's June estimates. Said one surprised Kansas farmer: "I've got the finest 40-bushel straw and the poorest 10-bushel wheat you ever saw." Reasons for the dwindling crop: long, unseasonal rains, in some cases hail, and plant diseases like stem rust and glume blotch...