Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of increased revenues, said Ike, "we can now propose the expansion of certain domestic programs." And with that muted trumpet blast, the Administration turned away from three years of stern domestic budget-trimming to heed the clamor for some home-front expansion. The State Department, Ike said, needs an $89 million raise "to strengthen" its staff, to build a new wing on its main building in Washington and new embassies and consulates abroad. The new federal school-construction program (see EDUCATION) requires a substantial down payment on the $2 billion to be spent over the next five years...
...down on the way to pick them up for a White House dinner for Queen Mother Elizabeth; they skinned in just as the band broke into Hail to the Chief. Now they drive everywhere in their Ford Victoria, and some legitimate government expense eats its way into their own stern personal budget. (Hughes took a 75% salary cut to come to Washington for the Budget Director...
Franco's Spain, like Cromwell's England, maintains a stern attitude toward the proprieties. Respectable ladies of Madrid see that their evening gowns are cut high in back as well as in front, men wear two-piece bathing suits on the beaches, and unmarried girls are never permitted out after dark without a chaperone. Spaniards have long viewed with horrid fascination and some alarm the thriving colony of fun-loving American expatriates at sunbaked Costa del Sol, southwest of Malaga...
...friend and would-be husband. The man she thinks she loves is Hari Sahni, a fellow announcer with a neat little Clark Gable mustache. But Mama Chakravarty, like Mama Morgenstern, has no intention of letting her daughter marry a no-good. A widow, she marches Amrita straight off to stern old grandpa for a verbal rattanning: "I have enquired into the young man's family. The result was not satisfactory...
...letters from plumbers, sociologists, little children and old men. Apparently, hundreds of people identified themselves with the conductor, standing in front of their screens with rulers and pencils in their hands and giving the beat and tempo. Even musicians liked it. I should have thought experts like Isaac Stern and Jennie Tourel would have been bored to tears, but they thought the show did a great deal for music, for the whole business of music...