Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party members who were guilty of "capitulatory behavior." Strongman Ulbricht fired Wilhelm Zaisser, boss of the SSD (the Soviet zone security police), reinstated the backbreaking work norms, launched a clattering campaign against Western "spies" and "saboteurs." East German papers were crammed with lurid stories of arrests, trials, confessions and stern punishments. By last week, in the courts of cold-eyed Minister of Justice Hilde Benjamin, "the Red guillotine," some 320 sentences had been handed out, including at least six death sentences and six of life imprisonment. The Red bosses began a complete screening of the 5,000,000 member East...
...battle stars) in Korean waters, the "busiest ship in the fleet" had been in the yard for ten months for an extensive overhaul. Most of her 1,400 officers and men were aboard, and helmeted civilian workmen swarmed over her decks. Officers had just completed the weekly stem-to-stern inspection, had pronounced the "Leading Lady" (the crew's name for the Leyte) shipshape. Then, suddenly, the big ship shook and a dull explosion roared over the yard. It sounded, said Captain Thomas A. Ahroon, "like the rumble of a subway train." The ship's clock stopped...
...Stern Condemnation. Next morning in London, the news stirred the Big Three foreign ministers. Three identical messages went off to the U.N. requesting an "urgent meeting" of the Security Council, which took up the matter this week, and unanimously invited Denmark's Major General Vagn Bennike, Chief Truce Supervisor, to New York to report. The U.N.'s Mixed Armistice Commission, chief enforcement agency of the truce, which has only the power to urge and deplore, deplored the Israeli act as "coldblooded murder." Britain, which stands behind the desert state of Jordan, wired its "distress" and "horror...
Princess Fried Egg. Princess Frederika was raised-mostly in Austria-in the stern, proud tradition of Germany's Junker nobility. It was unthinkable, she told schoolmates later in life, that she would ever be permitted to marry beneath her own exalted station...
...these were U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady and his successor, John E. Peurifoy. the men most responsible for seeing that the U.S. got full value for the billions it gave Greece under the Truman Doctrine. A third was the present Premier. Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, a stern and polished old warrior who had often scolded Paul in his salad days, who had twice risked his career defending Gliicksburg Kings and twice led the Greek army to victory-against the Fascists and against the Communists...