Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Darrach's gift for words may be traced to a lineage of hereditary Scottish bards and minor English writers. Stern custodian of this heritage has been his maternal grandmother Alice Dunbar, now over 80. For grandmother Dunbar, he wrote romantic prose until he was eight, when he went off to Philadelphia's old St. Peter's (Episcopal) Choir School to sing as a boy soprano and play football in the school's historic cemetery. "I remember," he says, "catching a forward pass on Stephen Decatur's grave." At West Philadelphia High, Darrach began to compose...
Faure was stung to sharp action. Calling a Cabinet meeting next morning, he sacked the ministers without waiting for their resignations; within hours he had installed as Defense Minister retired General Pierre Billotte, a member of the so-called "dissident Gaullists." Billotte's first order was a stern warning to defiant French generals henceforth, "every French soldier, regardless of rank, will do his duty." Then Billotte hastened to Morocco, with orders to hustle De Latour into doing what Faure had already told him to do- form a regency council...
Mutiny is an ugly word, and in the Chamber, Deputies were sobered. Faure made a last, stern appeal: stop bickering, and make up your mind on what France should do in North Africa. Lest France be left alone and friendless in the world, he pleaded, "we must have a clear policy-not powerless sulking...
...week's end Sir John Harding personally delivered London's reply to the archbishop: a stern no. Britain, as immovable as any of Aphrodite's daughters, was not yet ready to loosen its grip on its eastern Mediterranean military command post by conceding the right of self-determination...
Knights & Ladies. Ed got his lusty start 53 years ago when he and his twin Daniel were born in Manhattan to Peter and Elizabeth Smith Sullivan. Ed's father was a stern, moody man with a minor post in the U.S. Bureau of Customs...