Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...challenge of Nikita Khrushchev's Sputnik III, a cone-shaped monster weighing almost 1½ tons and launched by a rocket obviously bigger than any in the U.S. arsenal, brought no sense of panic or dismay. Instead, it was accepted as another stern warning that the U.S. must push hard on its own missile program, turn at least one deaf ear to propaganda talk of easy disarmament...
...Washington Senator McClellan had the last word, just as his labor-management investigating committee hoped ultimately to have the last word when hearings begin next month. And what stern John McClellan had to say added up to a different kind of blaze across the sky. Open defiance of legal federal inquiry ''really challenges the sovereignty of government.'' said he. "Though we haven't even scratched the surfaces yet, the incidents of violence and attempted intimidation underscore the need for laws to drive the crooks out of the labor movement...
...President Rojtman, 40. Rojtman, who merged his American Tractor Corp. with Case in January 1957, demonstrated his sales flair last fall with a $1,000,000 circus. He airlifted nearly 4,000 farmers and dealers to Phoenix, Ariz, to unveil the "1960 Case-O-Matic Line," lashed his tractors stern to stern with competitors' models to show how they could outpull them. All told, Rojtman wrote up $164 million in orders, signed up 300 new dealers...
...what he saw was symbolized by James John Walker, New York City's twice-elected (1925, 1929) mayor. Jimmy Walker, top hat perched jauntily askew, wisecracked his way through the '20s like a handsome Bacchus, and it was perhaps inevitable that he would one day clash with stern, silver-haired Samuel Seabury...
...rank as the South's biggest residential builders. The brothers, who share one office and secretary, started in the business while still schoolboys. Their father, a British-born Florida builder, insisted that they spend their summers mixing concrete and hammering nails, left them with a stern legacy: "Be the first man on the job and the last to leave. Build good houses. Don't build monuments to yourself...