Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restless South Africa, where a stern and self-righteous government is deliberately widening the gulf between races, violent passions were producing more & more violent demands. Nationalist Prime Minister Daniel Malan last week asked for dictatorial emergency powers from Parliament...
...encourage U.S.-style free enterprise in the most habitually bureaucratic of all nations, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer last week removed all government price controls from the sale of German steel and steel products. Instead of being glad, most German businessmen seemed apprehensive over their new freedom. Industrywide price fixing under stern government control has been standard practice in the steel industry for the past 21 years...
...Eight days in jail never hurt anybody," said Juan Perón last year in one of his frequent pep talks to Buenos Aires police. Under this stern dictum, made legal by the "state of internal war" decreed after the 1951 army revolt, thousands of Argentines were in & out of jail during the past year. Usually they were arrested, jailed and released without any formal charge. And, almost without exception, the real reason was that they were known or believed to oppose the regime...
...broad a case. Dom Aelred Graham, 46, a British theologian and an author himself (his latest book: Catholicism and the World Today), is now prior of St. Gregory's Priory in Portsmouth, R.I. He belongs to the Benedictines, an order older than the Trappists and far less stern in its practices. Writing for the Atlantic Monthly, he takes a "long, steady" second look at Trappist Merton...
...night long, in the stern, the bluejackets hung on as best they could. Next day, a hastily assembled crowd of Americans and Italians ashore set to work with what equipment they could scrounge or improvise, and urgent S O S's were radioed to the U.S. carriers Midway and Leyte, bucking the heavy winds some 150 miles away. Through a second tense night and most of a second day, rescuers managed to get a few of the crew ashore by breeches buoy. A dozen others plunged into the sea. to be fished out by a crazily weaving Italian rescue...