Word: stern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps I misread, for along with all of the above distractions I was at that moment busy ticking off an inexperienced crewman (named Malcolm Forbes) for his mishandling of the stern sheet. Yet I think I am correct in my recollection that Mr. Snotbottom advocated mandatory clothing for all Daily News reporters, at least when engaged in discharging their journalistic duties...
When a reporter and photographer from Stern, the West German mass-circulation weekly, arrived at Room 317 in Geneva's Beau-Rivage Hotel last week for an interview with Politician Uwe Barschel, they got a bigger scoop than they bargained for. The journalists found Barschel, 43, who had recently resigned as minister-president of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, sitting in the bathtub, clothed, upright and very much dead...
...Bernsen ordered the choppers to halt the Iranians' continued seeding of the waters. The strafing resumed until the Iran Ajr was disabled, its stern on fire. Six hours later in the light of dawn the SEALs from the Guadalcanal scrambled up the hull of the crippled ship. They found no one alive. Three bodies had been left behind by the fleeing crewmen amid a scene of destruction caused by the chopper assaults. Windows were shattered and huge gouges pocked the hull and cabin. Offices and other rooms had been ransacked in a hasty effort by the Iranians to destroy papers...
...owners or editors. All blame Reagan for not having enough news conferences, interviews and appearances to fill their needs. When the President does show up, the result is what one network official calls a "feeding frenzy," with flying elbows, shouts, roars, groans. Reagan could shut it off with a stern finger-pointing. Harry Truman would have cut the bunch down to pips and squeaks with one of his nasal tongue-lashings. It used to hurt good...
...view, John Paul was simply telling them, "You guys have a tough job. Please hang in there." Most other bishops emphasized the friendly, nonconfrontational atmosphere at the San Fernando meeting. But in their comments they pointedly left for another day how they would apply the Pope's stern admonitions. As he completed his second tour of the U.S., there was speculation that John Paul, now 67, would never again attempt so strenuous and grand a crosscontinental visit...