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Grilled about whether his statements stemmed from racism or jealousy, as he has claimed, Sterling started to stumble.

But in a malignant war there is injustice of ignobler kind at once to God and man, which must be stemmed for both their sakes.

There was no doubt in my mind but that the newspaper article stemmed from Mr. Hamblen's visit with a newspaper reporter.

As it was, the three were lolling in lazy attitudes, smoking their long-stemmed pipes and talking in a disjointed fashion.

Black-eyed boys, and here and there a drowsy man with a long, cherry-stemmed pipe between his teeth, stood aside to stare.

They were sitting in deep chairs in the living room now, a tall-stemmed reading lamp glowing softly between them, hardly speaking.