Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder if other readers noticed the psychological tie-in between Colonel Stapp's stern parents and his obviously masochistic choice of career [Sept. 12]. The religiously strict father, and the mother who "tried to strap the unruly youngster in bed," surely drove him to rebel (in pursuit of scientific studies), but later to conform, strapping himself into the rocket sled in death-bent compensation. The many protective straps that he has invented, as well as other devices, show a fortunate outcome of an emotionally unhealthy childhood...
...their last final examinations above the ship's engine room. But the heat did not discourage the students, though, as one member of the Club observed: "At the conclusion of each examination, the suffers assem- bled, books in hand, marched twice about the decks, and finally halting at the stern, threw books and notes into the sea with a great shout, much to the edification of the other passengers...
...Intervened. Secretary of State Dulles, who already had sent a note to Turkey expressing "deep concern" over the riots, dispatched his stern appeal to the two NATO allies. "I believe that the unity of the North Atlantic community, which is the basis of our common security, must be restored," said he. The Greeks exploded at the absence of any words of sympathy for the victims of the Turkish riots. "Mr. Dulles placed criminals and victims on the same level," cried Athens' newspaper, Vima, with considerable justice...
William's descendants were cast from the same stern mold. His great-grandson, Colonel John Goffe, was a noted Indian fighter. The colonel's son John, in turn, was as robust as his forefathers. Accidentally caught in the heavy mill machinery one day, he was "squoaze so bad" that he never fully recovered and died some years later at what-for a Goffe-was the untimely...
...started out in Cape Town and crossed the Equator eight times in one year. U.S. Journalist John Gunther, who is running out of continents to get inside of (he has been Inside Europe, Asia, Latin America and the U.S.A.}, started in Morocco and toured Africa from "stem to stern, from top to bottom." All told, Gunther reckons, he traveled 40,000 miles in a year, visited 105 towns and "took notes on conversations with 1,503 people." Novelist Cloete confined his search to a single if vast theme: "To clarify our minds about the racial ferment of Africa." Reporter...