Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening switches and shooting at wrecking crews in the dark. Small, tough jeeps may be able to negotiate the oxcart tracks and are being commandeered to carry out the wounded, but the majority must walk. Whether they escape depends upon whether Alexander and Stilwell can block off roads to stem the Jap advance, and whether the rains come to bog down Jap motor columns...
...started its second century, New York City's school system was in the midst of an upheaval. Its elementary schools were being converted from stem to stern to Progressive Education, which had been tried (with hopeful results) in 70 schools. The 1942 Board of Education hoped that by 2042 the school system would no longer be famed merely as the world's biggest...
...prepared for a rush-hour start-it was necks and rumps, then necks and necks. On the far turn the horses were bunched like a hand of bananas. Coming into the stretch, the first ten could have been covered with a blanket. But the favorites were too near the stem. Market Wise, the people's choice, got lost in the early shuffle...
...afternoon, the Third Class Proficiency Tests, one of the pre-requisites to receiving a "C" rating in the U. S. Eastern Amateur Ski Association, will be given by Bungie King and Tom Winship on the Pinkham Notch Practice Slope. To pass this test the skier must make four continuous stem turns, a right and a left stop Christie, and either two jump turns or two telemarks. In addition he must negotiate a prescribed slalom course in reasonable time...
...Harassed Doctor. The man whose job it has been to try to stem China's inflation, and whose Ministry has often been accused of aggravating it, is Minister of Finance Dr. H. H. ("Daddy") Rung. Seldom has even a horse-&-buggy doctor operated under such harassments as the coolie-&-ricksha society of bomb-torn Chungking has imposed on aristocratic Dr. Kung, 75th descendant of Confucius. An active ingredient of the inflation has been lack of confidence in the finances of the Chiang Kai-shek Government. Some of his henchmen have been accused of worse things than incompetency...