Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most devoted, perhaps, of all the stern young abbe's admirers was the rosy-cheeked peasant girl Régine, with whose family the priest often dined on Saturdays. Eager to help in his work. Régine took on the job of tending the church altar and the sacerdotal robes, and her kindly parents were proud indeed of their daughter -proud, that is, until one day early this year when Régine told them that she was pregnant and refused to name the father of her unborn child...
...Ireland to make a formal bid for the nymph, he took with him his favorite cousin, Margaret Montgomerie. Sweet Peggy acted as his counselor-and kibitzed so cutely that Bozzy forgot the object of his journey and proposed to Peggy instead. Their marriage contract bore the stern signature "Sam. Johnson. Witness...
Quiet Toughness. Late Wednesday David Ben-Gurion got a personal message from President Eisenhower. Its gist, as relayed by Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban, was that the U.S. had reached a stern decision: unless Ben-Gurion backed down and agreed to retreat from the Sinai peninsula as the United Nations asked, he could not expect any U.S. aid in the event of a Soviet attack. The White House had already made clear to Paris and London that the U.S. did not conceive its NATO commitment to include the Middle East or Cyprus if the Anglo-French persisted in their...
...Business School; Fredrick M. Eaton '27; Marshall Field Jr. '38; G. Peabody Gardner '10; Courtlandt S. Gross '27; R. Keith Lane '22; Roy E. Larsen '21; Neil H. McElroy '25; James J. Milton '13; Arthur W. Page '05; Paul C. Reardon '32; Geoffrey S. Smith '22; Edgar B. Stern '07; Robert G. Stone '20; Paul P. Swett, Jr. '32; Philip H. THeopold '25; John E. Toulmin '25; Frederick M. Warburg '19; Frederic B. Whitman '19; George Whitney '07; and Charles E. Wyzanski...
Eisenhower kept a close watch and a cool head. In stern and unequivocal language he warned Russia's Bulganin that any intervention by Russian troops in the Middle East war was "unthinkable"'; he added afterwards that any Russian move against Austria would be considered by the U.S. as "a grave threat to peace." Meanwhile he worked patiently to repair the physical and moral basis of the Western alliance, so as to confront the probing Russians with a united Western front. In a decisive speech on the crisis from the White House (see page 29), Eisenhower proclaimed...