Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increase the Sons' respect for the law. But it did succeed in getting the Freedomite children into school: the youngsters were placed in foster homes and sent to classes regularly while their parents were in prison. Attorney General Bonner is apparently planning to use the same stern method to enforce the school law again...
...Disturb. In the last hours of the campaign, no concern showed on the stern, creased face of the 77-year-old man who had piloted West Germany from chaos to prosperity, from defeat to respectability and alliance with the democracies of the West. He sped coolly through the last campaign stops, and then, on the day before election, retired to his garden on the banks of the Rhine and sent out orders to his party aides not to disturb him that night, nor on the next night when the election returns came...
Doug went to work lifting weights in Vancouver's Y.M.C.A. gym, laid out a stern regime for himself. Outside school, he spent most of his time worrying the weights, fueling up on enormous daily quotas of calories and proteins (e.g., three or four steaks a day). He never touched candy, alcohol, tobacco. One look at girls told him: "They're dangerous." Anything that detracted from his lifts was "dissipation." At 20 he had a nervous breakdown, but soon bounced back...
...Brother's big fist. Its title: The End. Subject: Hitler in his last moments in his crumbling Berlin bunker, a drooling, raving maniac surrounded by besotted generals. The rest of the exhibit was thoroughly predictable: noble Lenins, fatherly Stalins, travel-poster vistas of sunny harvest fields, hefty milkmaids, stern-jawed Stakhanovite workers, a tired, heat-racked oldster peering into the furnace glow whose portrait was entitled Esteemed Old Steel Puddler F. I. Sveshnikov. (Not to be confused with Esteemed Steel Puddler of the Hammer and Sickle Works, M. G. Gusarov and His Brigade, which was also on display.) Only...
...word nigger in class. Washington felt that the student had acted only out of habit, but, says he, "there were a few liberals in the room who I knew would resent it if I showed no offense. So I turned around and looked at the fellow with as stern a look as I could muster." Washington never heard "that word" again...