Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Desperately the Chinese tried to stem the advance. Skillfully General Hsueh Yo thinned his troops out in flanking columns, hoping to round the Japanese end. But the Japanese spearheads pushed on. Their bombers pounded the city mercilessly. Chungking admitted that some Japanese had entered the city, but insisted they had been wiped...
Representative Hamilton Fish's attempt to stem the Administration's interventionist flood with his stubborn dam of isolation was swept away in formal debate by the onslaught of William Y. Elliott, noted Gov. 1 professor, who charged that Fish was a "tool or dupe" of the Nazis...
They sank with a sullen splash, seconds passed and suddenly the destroyer shook from stem to stern. More depth charges followed and a second convulsion. By that time the Greer was beginning to turn. Minutes later she was back over the spot and more explosions shook the sea. For several hours the Greer quartered that sector of the sea releasing charges at the slightest suspicion of any underwater object...
...upstairs to his big, high-ceilinged office on the second floor. There he rushes all day-reading reports at his neat walnut desk, drafting concise memos for the War Cabinet, gulping down a chop and an apple for lunch, talking with aides and prodding them with his pipe stem, phoning, planning, dining at one of his clubs, scurrying back to his office and driving himself until small hours...
...main stem restaurants serve the Green Men at from $7 to $8.75 a week, and the students complain about the exorbitant prices. Five small eating clubs, run in private houses, charge from $8 to $10, but the food is "slightly better in quality...