Word: starke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Home-Town Boys. The Kutis Funeral Home first became a soccer patron 15 years ago when some boys asked it to sponsor their team. Fearing mayhem, Kutis and his father gloomily agreed, saw their stark pessimism confirmed when a boy broke his leg before even a ghoul was scored. They dropped the team, but five years ago Tom Kutis decided to try again. He built his championship team exclusively from home-town St. Louis boys, although at times he has hired a European coach. "We don't import players," says Kutis. "St. Louis boys fit in better with...
...London the first reaction was: "He's mad-stark, staring mad." Mintoff's next move was to fire off a cable to Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd proposing a "truce," and urging that British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan intervene with the Admiralty to get the dockyard firings canceled. A day later came news that the firings had been cut from 40 to 30, and that alternative jobs would be offered all 30 discharged workmen...
Finally, at 8:32 one morning last week, Big Annie's giant gantry was rolled ponderously away from the launching pad, leaving the black and white missile standing stark against the sky, her nose a full 80 ft. above the ground. Dozens of helmeted workers swarmed about her base, and a man climbed up to tinker with valves and connecting lines. A moment later plumes of mist rose from the base as fueling with liquid oxygen began...
...been a long time since grey Gotham saw a labor leader who actually punched a time-clock and went to work in a uniform. Abe Stark, Brooklyn's substitute for mayor, set the familiar monolith into action. The City of New York slapped an injunction on the Motormen, and threatened Theodore Loos with jail...
...second part is the somber and tense tragedy of Mary's brother identifying a body in the darkness along a country road, and of Mary waiting in the kitchen's stark white light, trying to adjust to the expected news of Jay's death. She waits alone despite her aunt's presence because sorrow, like joy, is a loneliness infinitely difficult to communicate even though, and yet because, it depends upon others...