Word: stems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this discussion of national purpose appears to stem from an inexcusable ignorance of our history...
Many of these restrictions stem from a misunderstanding or lack of information about the needs of education, the Dean said. He called for a statement of principles drawn up--"eventually through some form of concerted action"--which would define the "broad purposes and basic policies of the ideal national financial aid program...
...join Bell as assistant to the president, quickly rose to take over as president of Bell's helicopter subsidiary in Fort Worth in 1951. As president, Gaylord will divide his time between Fort Worth and Buffalo, regroup the company's defense operations in an effort to stem sagging sales...
David Smith, 53, is the best of the living "ironmongers." His raw, openwork constructions of iron, silver and stainless steel stem from Spanish ironwork by way of Gonzalez, but they have a peculiarly American urgency and, so to speak, a questioning emptiness. Smith is the idol of young American sculptor-welders, who find that they can follow his lead on a large scale without too great expense (a big cast-bronze monument may cost $50,000 to erect; a welded steel one as little as $500). Smith stays more inventive than any of his imitators...
...many Communists kiss so many ladies' hands." Poland today "is a place where Marxist theoreticians argue with Americans in night clubs, [where] TV commercials can be permitted on the same channels that pledge the 'workers' society' to a world free from private enterprise." The contradictions stem from the fact that the 1956 revolution had to be halted halfway, frozen in mid-blow; Poland's economy is lethargic and disorderly, its younger generation is embittered after seeing its 1956 hopes for liberty diluted in daily compromise with Moscow...