Word: stems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marines line up and a gunnery sergeant gives them a lecture," Sachs said. "All the time he's talking, he's fondling a rabbit in his hands. Then at the end of the talk, he takes the rabbit, breaks its neck, slits it stem to stern, and throws the bloody mess at the troops, shouting, 'Get ready, grunts. That's what's coming...
...cause of the coincidental decline in applications and the economic viability of the prep schools. But according to the admissions directors, the drop in applications is due to a wide variety of reasons. In addition to tighter money and steeper tuitions, the most frequently cited objections to prep school stem from...
...crimp the Communist prospects for 1972, the allies would have to stem the flow of men and supplies?especially supplies?in 1971. Shortly after the turn of the year, Nixon decided to take action. Just before Defense Secretary Melvin Laird left on his three-day trip to Saigon in early January, Nixon laid down his general objectives...
...science and science-fiction writer, to lay down what he calls Clarke's Law: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." Most erroneous predictions, Clarke believes, stem from one of two causes: a failure of imagination or a failure of nerve. His law holds up in science, at least, where knowledge seems almost a barrier to drawing an accurate picture of the future. Far better as prophets have been the science-fiction writers, who usually have limited scholarly...
Nixon's Cabinet plans are the most drastic ever proposed for the Executive department, and stem largely from a study commission headed by Business Executive Roy L. Ash and refined by the White House staff. They have the same positive intent as those of the Hoover Commission in 1947: to make the proliferating federal bureaucracy more responsive to the presidential will by merging many small agencies under a few broad ones. Nixon said his purpose is to "match our structure to our purposes...