Word: stems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spokesmen for the Club emphasized that staging the Wellesley production in Cambridge did not stem from the Club's financial difficulties. The Club is in very good shape financially, a Club representative asserted...
...photographer wife Jacqueline remarks, in a symbolic manner of speaking: "If I were drawing him, I'd draw a tiny body and an enormous head." Kennedy is recognized as the Senate library's best customer, reads six to eight books a week, mostly on American history. No stem-winding orator ("Those guys who can make the rafters ring with hokum-well, I guess that's O.K., but it keeps me from being an effective political speaker"), Kennedy instead imparts a remarkable quality of shy, sensemaking sincerity. He is certainly the only member of the U.S. Congress...
...President's pronouncement last Wednesday that the economy is "taking a breather" emphasized the failure of the government to stem the recent inflation while sustaining a reasonable rate of economic growth. In an attempt to stabilize the price level, the Administration has relied heavily on monetary controls. But the tight money policy of the Federal Reserve Board has been both unfair and ineffective...
Perri (Buena Vista) is a squirrel who, presumably, was walking along the main stem one day, minding her own business, when along came a fellow from the Walt Disney studios and asked her how she would like to be in pictures-not in any old cartoon, but in a brand-new sort of thing called "a true-life fantasy." Assuming that her squeals were intended to signify delight, the fellow promptly popped her into a crate, and away she went bouncing to fame and misfortune...
...Year: Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas-the only man to stem the black tide...