Word: stems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's end some such trend was actually becoming evident, though it seemed to stem more from the recession and a falling off in the import of heavy capital equipment from the U.S. than from any government action. The Tories, who succeeded in their 7 4-months in office in doing something for almost everybody, will ask the Canadian voters for a parliamentary majority solid enough to ensure them the usual four years in power. As the campaign opened, they seemed to have a better than even chance...
...historical event. The Turks are all red-fezzed ogres, the common soldier and the people's general win the war for their oppressed brethren, and the Tzarist general staff is composed of dunderheads and tools of women. Bullets cannot touch the heroic leader, and his heroic troops stem the Turkish hordes by hurling rocks and corpses. A Bulgarian captive breaks away from his captors and, standing silhouetted against the night sky, cries "We will gain our freedom," and hurls himself into the abyss below...
Both teams opened the game in a zone, but Columbia switched into a man-to-man near the end of the first half in an effort to stem a Crimson offensive rally, marked by excellent outside shooting by the whole team. But the new Lion strategy was to fail in its purpose...
...this big, wide-ranging movie, scope is stressed at the expense of depth, and there is no time to develop any very complex characters. The most interesting of the lot is the fanatic British colonel, all of whose actions stem from one trait: conscientiousness carried to the point of mania. Alec Guinness plays him with deft stiffness. His torture scenes are appropriately ghastly, and he resists the temptation to clown. William Holden gives his usual performance as a soldier who escapes from the prison camp and returns to blow up the bridge. Jack Hawkins and Geoffrey Horne are his fellow...
...Into the fourth-floor office as assistant executive editor and working boss of the news staff went studious Larry Fanning, 43, onetime (1941-54) managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, who has been editor of the Sun-Times syndicate since 1955. But the staffers' exodus continued. To stem it, Publisher Field, though already hard pressed for news executives, last week persuaded Tom Reynolds to quit...