Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Very fine wrap-up of the Andrea Doria-Stockholm disaster, but would like to point out that the point where the liner was hit was not the starboard "quarter" but the waist. The quarter is the stern section of a ship...
Borrowed Thunderbolts. With thunderbolts from Carlyle and Woodrow Wilson he blasted the Republicans from stem to stern. He did not propose, he said, to make "political capital out of the President's illness." But he attacked Eisenhower as a weak President "cynically coveted [by the Republicans] as a candidate but ignored as a leader." In an oblique thrust at Nixon, he said that if he and Kefauver are elected "and it is God's will that I do not serve my full four years, the people will have a new President they can trust...
Assuming the offer genuine, it represented a major concessio−and comedown−by E.O.K.A. In Athens it was described as giving the British a chance to save face. In London it was seen as vindication of Harding's stern policy of military repression of terrorism. E.O.K.A., said the British, had been sobered both by its losses of men and material and by the fact that the Greek Cypriot populace, which once gave E.O.K.A. almost unanimous approval, has been increasingly distressed by bombings, riots and curfews. (In the past few weeks several Greek Cypriots, including an ex-member...
...Wearing his stern concepts of amateurism like a chip on his shoulder, International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage promoted a new addition to the Olympic oath: "I am now, and intend to remain, an amateur." He seemed surprised to learn that there might be athletes who could not predict their futures and could not sign in good conscience. As complaints poured in, Brundage tried to backtrack: "There is no desire to interfere with those who intend to pursue a legitimate career in physical education, sport administration, press, radio, etc." Just when aspiring pros became illegitimate, Brundage...
After three months Miller purged his household of Conrad - but not before the Man Who Came to Dinner had worsened Miller's relations with his wife, urged stern discipline for Miller's daughter, plunged Miller into combat with his best friends, and got himself deported back to France...