Word: stem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's power to issue the order must stem either from an act of Congress or from the Constitution itself. There is no statute that expressly authorizes the President to take possession of property as he did here. Nor is there any act of Congress to which our attention has been directed from which such a power can fairly be implied...
...when France's armies were in full retreat, a gallant young officer tried almost singlehanded to stem the German advance. Time & again he flung his motorized squadron through the enemy lines. A machine-gun blast shattered his left arm, and he fought on. Soon afterward, a grenade ripped off the wounded hand. A night later, his arm amputated, the young officer shinnied down out of a military hospital window and escaped. Thus crippled, he parachuted into Nazi territory to carry on the fight underground. A grateful nation later rewarded Captain Antoine-Pierre-Etienne Chalvet Bauny...
...Vermont Democrats chose ten delegates (with six: votes), all unpledged. ¶ Washington state Democrats picked 32 delegates (with 22 votes), most of whom favor Kefauver, and heard a stem-winder speech by Candidate Robert Kerr. Sample passage: "Eisenhower hasn't committed himself on anything. He is the nation's only living unknown soldier." ¶ North Dakota Republicans chose eight Taft men, one Ike man and five uncommitted delegates to go to Chicago. ¶ North Dakota Democrats elected 16 unpledged delegates (with eight votes). ¶ Hawaii Republicans received assurances that both Taft and Eisenhower would support statehood...
...boring routine of daily shelling, went to general quarters. Earsplitting salvos reverberated all morning and afternoon as the Saint Paul's 5-and 8-in. guns plastered Communist shore installations. The blast came at 3:55 p.m. Suddenly the cruiser lurched like a hooked marlin, rattling from stem to stern. Not enemy action but a gunpowder fire of undetermined origin had set off a blast in one of the Saint Paul's forward eight-inch turrets. Damage-control teams pulled 30 bodies out of the steeled compartment while poisonous powder flames were still swirling. For two hours, while...
...Brushed aside God Save the Queen as South Africa's national anthem in favor of Die Stem van Suid Afrika (The Voice of South Africa), a thundering Afrikaner hymn...