Word: stern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...partition plan was almost certain to split Jewish ranks. The extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Gang, neck-deep in guerrilla warfare against the British, would turn just as eagerly on Jewish "appeasers." In a showdown, moderate Zionists would probably have the support of Haganah, largest of the underground groups. The compromise note was already sounded by "Voice of Israel," the Haganah radio station, which last week condemned violence and "purposeless terror...
...Herlihy) is the Scotch-Irish daughter of a small businessman in Glasgow. Until last week her career has been much like that of most other young actresses. As a little girl she always hogged the starring roles in re-enactments of movies; as a teen-ager she met stern opposition from her parents when she wanted to play-act for keeps. Her tribulations as a typist were anesthetized by amateur theatricals; as soon as she saved a little money she fled to London for "the most terrifying six months of my life"-25 shillings a week and job-hunting through...
First prize went to Pipe-Major Robert Reid, a tightly muscled Glasgow bagpipe-maker and veteran of two wars. Said he: "I would never have played the pipes if it hadna bin for ma father, but he was a stern mon and kept me to it ever since I was six years old." Pipe-Major Reid's twelve-year-old son is doing very well on the chanter, a pipe without the bag-but, said Reid, "he winna take...
Representing Lowell House are George I. Bell '48, chairman, and Roger S. Kuhn '48; Kirkland House, Joseph D. Everingham '49 and Edus H. Warren, Jr. '46; Leverett House, George J. Keegan '44 and Robert S. Sturgis '44; Adams House, Lewis Freeman '46 and Phillip M. Stern...
...events promised to enliven the U.N.'s opening session at Lake Success (L.I.): 1) Russia's stern-faced Delegate Andrei Gromyko had been caught smiling (see cut); 2) after a 5,500-mile journey, the Mongol delegates had arrived. The cause of Gromyko's smile: U.S. comic strips. Occasion of the Mongols' visit: the question of Outer Mongolia's admission (together with Albania, Portugal, Eire, Iceland, Sweden, Afghanistan and Trans-Jordan) to the U.N. Result (after a stormy exchange between U.S. Delegate Herschel Vespasian Johnson and an unsmiling Gromyko) : three admissions (Afghanistan, Sweden, Iceland...