Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is so sad as a Kim bedimmed? Up to its dollies in lubricous headlines, Columbia Pictures Corp. issued a stern caveat to a hot property, sometime lavender-haired Cineminx Kim Novak: no more would she see her yacht-bounding buddy, General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr. La Novak, sighing loudly enough for even the most quote-weary columnist to hear clearly, sounded like a damsel in the dragon's clutch: "I don't know whether I'll ever see him again. Now that he's been painted as a villain, it has spoiled everything...
...mess with inflationary policies, and did little to reform because officials thought they could always count on the U.S. Export-Import Bank for loans. Eventually, after 63 authorized loans totaling $656 million, Brazil had to go to the Monetary Fund. There a coolly competent professional international staff delivered a stern lecture, exacted a promise of reform, gave a small drawing account of $37.5 million in the hope that Brazil would go and sin no more. If Brazil had had to take this lecture from the U.S., the howl in Rio would have carried all the way to Washington. Said...
Even the most enthusiastic advocates of statehood realized that stern tests of responsibility had just begun. Along with the statehood referendum, Alaska will hold political primaries next month, elect two U.S. Senators, a U.S. Representative, a Governor and a secretary of state in November. Key job: the governorship, with great power under the new Alaska constitution, including that of some 200 pivotal appointments. Would G.O.P.-appointed Territorial Governor Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9) make the grade at the polls? He is popular enough even though Alaska is Democratic-minded. But if he fails, he can find comfort...
...within his code, a gentle man, beloved by officers and crew. His sailors were "brave fellows" and a "band of brothers." Nelson set a good table and a stern example. That he lived to save Europe from Napoleon is something of a miracle, and British Biographer Warner (a naval buff from the time he sat at Caius College, Cambridge, beneath a portrait of Nelson's father) has shown a hagiographer's diligence in turning over the records of England's seagoing lay saint...
Shallow-draft hulls are at their best in a following wind, and the wind stayed aft for three days. Finisterre ran downhill and showed her stern to many a deep-keeled craft that might have passed her had they been slugging it out to windward. Four days out, Finisterre got another break when the big boats up ahead ran into a calm. While they slatted helplessly, the smaller boats like Finisterre closed the gap the big fellows had opened up. On the last day, when storms made up in the southeast, Finisterre held her own in dusty going and drove...