Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news, handed out at West Point in a mimeographed, flatly worded communique made even the college basketball gambling scandals pale in comparison. The honor code had been set up in 1817 by the "Father of West Point," stern Sylvanus Thayer, given its final shape during the tour of General Douglas MacArthur in the '20s, and came to occupy in a West Pointer's mind, Ike Eisenhower once said, a position "akin to the virtue of his mother or sister...
...jealous of their newly won right to share in management's decisions. Labor leaders are striding into statesmanship; they support the Schuman Plan, German rearmament. By choosing Christian Fette as chairman to succeed the late venerated Hans Böckler, the unions have affirmed their political independence. Stern, stubby Chairman Fette, 56, will not dance when the doctrinaire Socialist Party pipes; his business is practical gains for German workers...
...bandits called her Doña Edelmira; she wore men's clothes, carried two revolvers and a knife, seemed to be Tulio's girl. Edelmira directed the pillage. The bandits stacked the loot in the plaza, loaded it on stolen mules. Bandolero, Edelmira enforced a stern rule upon the men; she permitted no raping or kidnaping of the village women...
Cruel Memory. But Dr. Walter, who is one of Britain's leading neurophysiologists, had a stern duty. He was building his pets for a purpose: to study by electronic analogy the basic workings of the human brain. Since the brain has memory and the ability to learn, he felt that his pets should be given similar qualities, though he knew it might destroy the simplicity of their lives...
Last week, after 17 years as sovereign, Leopold III, King of the Belgians, did what he could to make amends and restore harmony among his people. Before a distinguished group of 250 in the Royal Palace's white-and-gold throne room in Brussels, the stern, still handsome and young-looking (at 50) monarch relinquished his right to reign to his 2O-year-old son Baudouin. "It is with pride," Leopold told the boy, "that I transmit to you the noble and heavy mission of henceforth bearing the crown * of a Belgium which has remained, despite the most terrible...