Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blue-jerseyed plane-pushers, shouting like stevedores above the clatter of their tractors, hurried to get the planes back to the Princeton's stern for the next launching. Mechanics, refueling and armament men in scarlet worked the planes over for the next strike. In his chart room abaft the flag bridge, handsome, white-haired Rear Admiral George R. Henderson, commander of Task Force 77, listened to his pilots' reports on the results of their strike. One pilot's instruments had been damaged by enemy ground fire; another thought his plane had been hit too. A young ensign...
Transamerica's expansion did continue; but so did the FRB suit against it. Stern old Amadeo P. Giannini denounced the whole thing as an Eccles plot. In any case, he had been reducing Transamerica's interest in the Bank of America. After old A.P.'s death, his son and successor, Lawrence Mario Giannini, kept on selling Transamerica's holdings in Bank of America, once 99%, until they were reduced to only 7.66%. Said Mario Giannini: "The Bank of America is not controlled by Transamerica in any manner...
Something of a Martyr. A fortnight ago they ordered him to stop his campus preaching. Phelps moved across the road, off campus, and kept on preaching. Principal Turrell warned him again. "He accosted me in very stern language," says Phelps, "and told me that he would call the law. So I told him I had no fears. If the police arrested me I would preach to them in jail...
...that he had launched an investigation. And if he had used "Jim Crow" military units, he had not created them: "They were created in Washington and sent to me ... I did not ask for men by race, I asked ... for 'men.' " Then MacArthur fixed Roberts with a stern stare, and gave him his lead for his two-part Courier series this week. Said the general: "I have one criticism of Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean war. They didn't send me enough of them...
...leaving Coe only 1 down), steady Dick Chapman blew up, seemed on the point of blowing the match. He hurled his cigarette to the ground, petulantly kicked the turf and bawled out his caddy. After the fit of temper his wife took him aside and gave him a stern lecture. "What are you," she demanded, "a man or a mouse...