Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wiry (5 ft. 8 in., 135 Ibs.) Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, 59, ex-Governor of New Hampshire, presidential chief of staff and next to Ike the most powerful man in the Administration. Adams, by presidential assignment the guardian of the integrity that Ike had always promised, the man of stern incorruptibility who threw out Government appointees of high rank at the first whiff of scandal, was now himself in deep trouble for having tarnished the armor he had so ceaselessly polished...
Timber Line. Vermont-born Llewellyn Sherman Adams grew up in the stern standards of rural New England, and he is stubborn, frugal and contradictory as only a rural Yankee can be. His parents were divorced after they moved to Providence, when Sherm was a boy, and he lived mostly with his mother, but he spent his summers in Vermont under the tutelage of his grandfather. He scratched through four years at Dartmouth, studying economics, singing (basso) in the glee club, hiking the hills and mountains of the north country. For 18 years Adams worked for a lumber company in Lincoln...
...four-masted bark measuring 316 ft. from the tapered stern to the golden eagle on its bow, Angelita is the same ship that dazzled bleak Russia in 1937 when its former owner, Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post Davies, and husband Joseph E. Davies, U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., sailed the vessel, then named Sea Cloud, through the Baltic to Leningrad...
...Still stern to the memory of his onetime commander, General Charles de Gaulle refused a request from the widow of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, wavering head of the fascist puppet Vichy government during World War II, asking that her husband's remains, now on the lonely Ile d'Yeu, be transferred to a graveyard at Verdun, site of his great 1916 defensive victory over the Germans...
...rarely been seen since. The story, as revived by the newly formed Boston Opera Group, concerns one Prince Caprice of the Kingdom of Flambeau, who persuades the nation's top scientist, Dr. Blastoff, to design him a moon rocket with plushy upholstery, an anchor at its stern, gaily-blinking lights and signal flags. This vehicle was trundled off the Boston Public Garden's stage last week and sent moonward with a bang, a yellow flash and an ominous puff of smoke. From there on, with the help of a first-rate cast (Tenors Norman Kelley and David Lloyd...