Word: stern
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Young was a stern and practical man. He was also a diplomat, a statesman, an empire builder and a begetter of children such as America had seldom seen...
Young, who could count a score of wives and 56 children, was a stern but benign husband and father. He conferred with his wives once a day. He held a daily "juvenile court" at his gabled adobe Lion House on East South Temple Street to settle differences between the children...
...fight to New York last week, lashed out at remote-control Terrorist Ben Hecht and his American League for a Free Palestine. In a full-page advertisement, Haganah asked the public not to contribute to what it called "Traitors, Inc." "With your money," said the ad, "the Irgun and Stern groups killed 81 Britons, 59 Arabs and 42 Jews during the last eight months. . . . Every time Ben Hecht 'makes a holiday in his heart' Ernest Bevin sends in more reinforcements. . . .Haganah has repatriated 34,000 Jews to Palestine, the American League for a Free Palestine only...
When the West produces musical talent (e.g., Fiddlers Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern), it has to go East to be polished. Last week, the West opened a musical finishing school of its own, at luxuriant, seaside Santa Barbara. For $30 a week board and up to $250 for eight weeks' tuition, 50 "advanced and specially gifted musicians" will be provided with extracurricula not offered by the East's famed but city-bound Juilliard, Eastman and Curtis: a private beach and mountain scenery, as well as a list of celebrated teachers, advisers and sponsors as long as an unwound...
What does a striker on the picket line think about? Orrin Cromwell Evans thought about comic strips. Evans was one of the Newspaper Guildsmen whose strike against J. David Stern's Philadelphia Record ended in the Record's collapse (TIME, Feb. 10). He was the only Negro reporter on the staff. As he walked the picket line, he thought hard about a complaint frequently heard among his people: Negroes are usually ridiculed and their way of life distorted in comics drawn by white...