Word: stems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humphrey seemed temporarily to be experimenting with a different strategy. The day of Nixon's nomination, the Vice President drove from his home in Waverly, Minn., to Minneapolis, where he delivered a stem-winding, hard-line speech on the war and domestic violence. "If I'm President," he told a convention of National Catholic War Veterans, "there won't be a sellout in South Viet Nam. We can no more afford to let aggressors abroad get their way than we can let lawbreakers at home get their...
Overt Hostility. The college's difficulties stem from both lack of leadership and the overt hostility of its New Hampshire neighbors, whose Yankee conservatism clashes with Franconia's avant-garde aims. Unintentionally, perhaps, the school quickly earned a reputation as a refuge for well-to-do but offbeat students (total yearly cost: $3,400). Last year more than one-third of Franconia's students were either transfers or dropouts from other colleges. Teachers in refuge from more orthodox corners of academe were attracted by the innovative spirit at an almost completely faculty-run school...
Disruptive Influence. The young entrepreneur's differences with the First National stem from the fact that both his grandfather and father were directors and prime movers of the bank. When William White Sr. died in 1966, First National pointedly passed over his two sons in filling the vacant directorship, even though the White family held a major interest in the bank...
...other candidates, Nixon is permitted a direct phone to ten delegations. He also has 125 cars at his command, as well as several speedboats-"Nixon's Navy" -that will dock in Indian Creek across from the hall to whisk VIPs to their hotels without fighting traffic on main-stem Collins Avenue...
...though, the Pope rejects them all: "It is not licit, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil so that good may follow therefrom, even when the intention is to safeguard or promote individual, family or social well-being." Paul also cites what he considers the dangers that will stem from widespread use of contraception: an increase in conjugal infidelity, a lowering of moral standards, the loss of respect for women, and finally, the possibility that "public authorities who take no heed of moral exigencies" could make birth limitation compulsory...