Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fleet Streeters regard Sir William as one of Britain's best journalists. An omnivorous reader (as many as 250 books a year), he has a diamond-sharp mind crammed with facts and ideas, which he uses with ice-cold efficiency. At BBC, he was a respected and stern director whose every murmur was a command, and who was good-naturedly known by staffers as "the man with two glass eyes...
peer closely at his phiz, So stern and firm it mocks the worm, it looks like wax . . . and is. They tell you he's a mummy...
...declared a state of martial law. Next, he had his police jail eleven National Assembly members whom he accused of being involved in a Communist plot, seize a twelfth on a murder charge, and arrest eleven citizens on a charge of plotting to assassinate him. The actions brought stern rebukes from a U.N. commission in Korea and the U.S. Embassy, and a flying visit from Eighth Army Commander Van Fleet. Said Rhee blandly: "There is no connection between politics and the arrest of the Assemblymen . . . The arrests will continue." Vice President Kim Sung Soo resigned in protest. The National Assembly...
...Germans also got, at French insistence, a stern warning from the U.S. and Britain. Whitehall and Washington promised 1) to keep their troops in Germany until EDC is sturdily on its feet, 2) to treat a threat "from whatever quarter" to the "integrity or unity" of EDC as a threat to their own security. German bad faith would constitute such a threat...
Ever since he took over the New Orleans Item three years ago, Publisher David ("Tommy") Stern has faced a double-barreled shotgun in the hands of his competition. Rival Publisher Leonard K. Nicholson used both his New Orleans morning Times-Picayune and afternoon States to keep Stern's afternoon Item in check. Two years ago Stern found an ally, when the Justice Department started an antitrust suit against Nicholson's papers. The Government's main charge: unfair competition by Nicholson, because he forced advertisers to put ads in both his papers, even if they wanted to advertise...