Word: stem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greeks in Turkey; scores of Greek Orthodox churches in the country were fired or defaced; some 300 persons were injured. It became evident that the Turkish government had not wanted to halt the violence or-worse from a standpoint of stability in a NATO country-had been unable to stem it. "I must admit," said Menderes, "that we were exposed to a national catastrophe, the object of a real attack by surprise." Western diplomats were also slow to realize how deep and serious was the revulsion in Greece. The Greek government went so far as to charge that the bombing...
...Britain, desperate for trained pilots to stem Hitler's air blitz, set up the first of her three Eagle Squadrons, made up of U.S. volunteers, in 1940. Two years later, with the U.S. in the war, Britain transferred the Eagles wholesale to the A.A.F., was duly compensated for the R.A.F.'s cost of training them...
...petitions against the Senate bill. All told, 100,000 women signed the petition, and the militants climbed in their cars and descended on Pretoria, the administrative capital, from all over South Africa. Led by a lady drummer, the women marched on the government offices, many of them singing Die Stem, the official national anthem. They were met by the Minister of Transport, deputizing for Strydom, but all that he could tell them was: "There can be no compromise when the life [of the white man] is at stake...
...built their mansions. During the Civil War, General Ulysses Grant planned the siege of Vicksburg from headquarters on Beale Street. But its real fame and flavor began after Reconstruction and the yellow fever epidemic of 1876-1878, when the white man moved away, and the street became the Main Stem of Memphis' darktown. The night life and mayhem, and, above all, the music of Beale Street became famous up and down the Mississippi...
Spaciousness and privacy are emphasized from stem to stern. The traditional three-tiered bunks for crewmen remain -but with a difference. They have been ' compartmentalized like Pullman berths, with lightweight, perforated "privacy partitions." Each bunk is equipped with a bed lamp and a pocket for books. Each tier of three has a fireproof, "Sandbrown" curtain, and most are ventilated with electric fans. There are nearly twice as many lockers as sailors aboard. Each compartment has folding chairs, a table and a hi-fi radio speaker as standard equipment...