Word: stern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...face of it, that did not make sense. But behind the tragic discrepancy of the two stern facts loomed an old, notorious situation; since November 1945, UNRRA had poured $132,250,000 worth of food, machinery and various relief supplies, from fishing boats to water buffalo, into the country. But only a trickle had got where they were needed most. The bulk of the supplies piled up in warehouses, filtered down into the depths of the black market, enriched the morass of government corruption and "squeeze" (China's term for "honest graft...
August Cardinal Hlond, the stern-faced Roman Catholic primate of Poland, having been accused of doing nothing to prevent or discourage the Kielce massacre of Jews (TIME, July 15), last week washed his hands of the matter. After deploring the pogrom, he said: "The fact that this condition [anti-Jewish violence] is deteriorating, is to a great degree due to Jews who today occupy leading positions in Poland's Government and endeavor to introduce a governmental structure which the majority of the people do not desire. This is a harmful game, as it creates dangerous tensions. In the fatal...
...Shanter Golf (Thurs. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Bill Stern describes the first day's play in the $50,000 tournament. Subsequent reports at 6:30 p.m. Friday, 4:45 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Saturday...
Haganah has denounced extremists of the Stern gang and the Irgun Zvai Leumi, which the British have long fought. Last week 31 young Jews (ages 19 to 28), members of the Irgun, were convicted of carrying firearms and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. (One, 19-year-old Benjamin Kaplan, was sentenced to life imprisonment for "discharging a firearm at His Majesty's forces.") In a turbulent three-day trial they shouted anti-British slogans from the dock, quoted Scripture (Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered . . .), chanted in unison "In blood and fire Judah fell; in blood...
Though she believed in enthusiastic unbottling of religious emotions, Matriarch White was always stern with pentecostal excesses. "Sometimes our people get happy and skip around a bit," she said, "but . . . we don't have any catalepsy or epilepsy." When some of her southern followers once essayed a bit of holy rolling, Bishop White merely said, "You get right up or I'll stick a pin in you." It worked...