Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sturdy and trim. The 2,857-ton freighter had been specially designed for the Danish government to withstand the pounding seas and polar ice of the wildest stretch of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the barren shores of Greenland. She had a double steel bottom, an armored bow and stern, and was divided into seven watertight compartments; she carried the most modern instrumentation, from radar to gyro, from Decca Navigator to radio-equipped life rafts. Her veteran captain, P. L. Rasmussen, 58, declared: "This ship means a revolution in Arctic navigation." Boasted a government official: "Now we can sail...
...London's Sunday Express, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, 84, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, had a heartwarming spiritual reflection. "Stalin was a rough and stern man," mused the Dean. "But God's eye is a big eye and sees everything, good and bad. To know all is to forgive all, so I think that, from heaven's point of view, Stalin is safe." Just out of curiosity, did the Dean see anything amiss in the Soviet encyclopedia's devoting 78 lines to the Red Dean, only eight to Christ? "Well, you see, I'm alive...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, a U.S. Air Force orchestra was on hand to blare out Old Soldiers Never Die as 96 former command and staff comrades offered their twelfth annual salute to the stern, bayonet-spined Old Man, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, turned 79. Among the many who wired birthday greetings: "Your old friend and assistant, Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...chief political argument of the year concerns defense and the budget, the chief economic argument is about inflation. Last week, echoing his stern budget-message warning, President Eisenhower set up a special Cabinet committee to study the extent to which inflation is heightened by Government spending and federal activities...
...Provisional President Pedro Aramburu (TIME Cover, June 3, 1957), the general who restored Argentina's democratic political system and presided over the free election a year ago that gave Frondizi a victory. In six months, Frondizi has sharply lifted Argentina's prestige and credit by a stern, undemagogic economic program that embodies the same patriotic austerity De Gaulle proposes for France. Next week, taking his first breather, he reaches the U.S. for a ten-day state visit...