Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then, did Khrushchev turn the international spotlight on "the German question"? Western experts no longer believe that he was merely probing for weak spots in the Western alliance. Moscow is well aware that an increasing number of West German politicians, expecially the Socialists, regard Konrad Adenauer's stern insistence on reunification, with no strings attached, as dead-end diplomacy. They are flirting restlessly with the notion that if the West agreed to discuss German demilitarization first, it might be able to lure Moscow into serious talks about reunification...
...another and soon there was open violence on Cyprus. A shadowy organization of Greek resistance-fighters ("patriots" or "terrorists," depending which side you're on) took shape in the mountains, gave itself the name of EOKA, and began ambushing British soldiers and policemen. The colonial administration responded with a stern program of security measures: strict curfews, mass arrests, fines levied on whole villages, and even, it is said, the use of torture to secure information from "suspects...
...through the mounting waves into the next day and the dusk. By then, the heavy seas were surging with 30-ft. waves, smashing at the 31-year-old vessel. In the pilot house. First Mate Elmer Fleming, 43, heard a thud. He spun around and looked toward the stern. The vessel was sagging aft of midships. Fleming made for the radiotelephone and cried...
...Grand Hall of the Patriarchate-archbishops in long beards and flowing black robes, city dwellers from Beirut and Damascus in Western suits and tarbooshes, Christians from the Hauran Desert in Arab headdresses. Each delegate was allowed three nominations. In the balloting, 42 votes went to Archbishop Ignatius Hraike, a stern Arab nationalist from Hama, Syria, 32 votes went to 73-year-old Archbishop Theodosios Abu Rajaili of Tripoli, oldest of the archbishops. Tied for third place were pro-Soviet Candidate Ghea and young Archbishop Elias Moawad of Aleppo, reputedly the most anti-Communist...
...Kenya. London's big popular newspapers demanded a "get tough" policy against the Greek Cypriot terrorists. Backbenchers in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Tory Party muttered that Britain's liberal Governor on Cyprus, Sir Hugh Foot, should be replaced by a military Governor-someone like stern Sir Gerald Templer, who used such collective-punishment measures as cutting the rice ration of villagers in Malaya to make them inform on Communists...