Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...below Nanking, two artillery shells from the Red-held north bank hit the Amethyst, crippled her bridge and wheelhouse. Rudder controls jammed. The Amethyst swung helplessly with the current; she ran aground on a bar near the island. Her four forward guns, facing the island, were useless, but her stern guns began to pour a methodical fire of 4-in. shells into the Communist positions. The shore batteries cut loose again. "It was a bit of a haze from then on," said one of the survivors...
Nora also has a new fan. Last summer, when Impresario Sol Hurok's secretary asked her to meet another of Hurok's clients, she snorted "A musician? Bah! They're all such egotists." Top-rank, young (29) Violinist Isaac Stern felt the same way about ballerinas, even though he had never paid much attention to ballet, had only seen a part of Les Sylphides once when Hurok had dragged him along. Nora and Isaac, married in November, now think there are exceptions...
Germany and Austria, and the overseas territories, including war-torn Indo-China. Stern, tireless General de Lattre de Tassigny had struggled hard to reorganize the French army and instill into it a new self-respect. The fact remained that at home it still trained with wooden guns and that even with overseas forces it could put in the field only five to nine ill-equipped combat divisions. France had about 1,000 planes, all of them worthless for combat service...
Reading from stern back, the first 150-lb. boat is composed of stroke Jack Smith, a veteran oarsman, Ted Barrett, Sutton Potter, Captain Dave Clark, Dick Grosvenor, John Bordman, Bob Menslage, and Sam Allen. In the cox's seat will be Charlie Osborne, who shouted at most of these rowers last year in the freshman 150 boat...
Frederic Delano Houghteling '50, of Washington and Leverett House; Paul Arthur O' Leary '48, of Belmont and Lowell House; Robert Joseph Stern '50, of Memphis, Tennessee, and Lowell House; David Hulbert Hall '50, of Wellesley Hills and Lowell House; and Robert Ferry Fuller '50, of Scarsdale, New York, and Lowell House...