Word: stems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kendall, a refugee-wise consulting mining engineer from Pasadena, turned up in Chungking with a story of how Hong Kong's 1,500 American residents boldly tried to stem the Japanese onrush. His best story by far was that of Dr. S. C. Moulthan, who loaded a motorcycle sidecar with guncotton, scooted off to the water front, there blew up two large ships to block Hong Kong harbor and scuttled 30 to 40 smaller craft...
...socialite Salt Lake City banker. Sandy-haired Hans Hauser could have been married half a dozen times. But Hans was too happy-go-lucky for his own good, according to Froelich, who was able to give up the business of teaching clumsy Americans how to do "snow plows" and "stem turns," and become a colonist himself. This season he and his rich wife lived in a hunting lodge a mile away from...
Three-Ply Weakness. But most of the causes of Britain's difficulty in Malaya did not stem from the enemy. They lay, deep as marrow, within Britain...
...battle's great lesson besides Japanese skill and guts, was the importance of the aerial torpedo in fleet actions. Cecil Brown broadcast: "It's apparent that the best guns and crews would be unable to stem a torpedo-bombing attack if the attackers are sufficiently determined"-and insufficiently opposed by defending aircraft. After this battle, a capital ship without air screen must be reckoned nearly as vulnerable as one without armor. But a capital ship with an air screen is, as far as experience shows, still better than any other kind of ship afloat...
...beach at Dunkirk it ceased to be possible to take democracy for granted. In 1941 men tried to stem this fact in a flood of dollar books about democracy, which revived the art of pamphleteering, but cost persistently patriotic publishers easily foreseeable losses...