Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gregorio deftly baits four lines and trails them from the stern. In fluid Spanish, Hemingway and the mate decide to fish the waters off Cojimar, the little fishing village near which Hemingway...
...back, reels a few feet, pumps, reels. To protect his back, he lets his arms and one leg do the work. By the shivery feel on the line he can identify the catch. "Bonito," he tells Gregorio. "Good bonito." With smooth speed, he works the fish close to the stern. Gregorio grabs the wire leader and boats a blue-and-silver bonito of about 15 pounds. A broad, small-boy smile flashes through Hemingway's old-man whiskers. "Good," he says. "A fish on the boat before 10:30 is a good sign. Very good sign...
...five years Konrad Adenauer had labored to put West Germany's best face forward. The stern old schoolmaster kept the unruly boys in his Bundestag shiny, neat and well-behaved. But last week, with the prize of German sovereignty assured, his pupils were kicking over the traces, bedeviling the old schoolmaster, and acting all too much like their old selves. Demagogy, irresponsible nationalism, and religious bickering swirled through provincial election campaigns in Hesse and Bavaria. The same kind of resurgent nationalism is now astir in Germany's defeated Axis partner, Japan (see below...
Flanked by two stern-visaged gendarmes, old Gaston stared at his screaming children and chided: "You must simply tell the truth...
Dealing with China's imprisonment of 13 Americans on charges of espionage, the Administration was both moderate--in repeating the need for coexistence--and stern--in warning China that the U.S. could not forever tolerate such "outrages." The strong protest appeared especially temperate when contrasted to Senator Knowland's call for a blockade of China and the severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. The President's desire to avoid a shooting war should now be evident to the free Asian nations that want a long period of peace for economic development...