Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michael Ramsey is also a complex churchman who is facing complex 20th century problems. A Cambridge-trained scholar and theologian, he came to Canterbury with a reputation for both deep spirituality and donnish wit-a man unwilling to compromise his own stern theology, but so fond of epigrams that he gives them up for Lent. Frankly at home in high-church ceremony, he nonetheless seems at times the amiable country parson, enjoying simple amusement in self-deflation. Archbishop Ramsey always signs his name "Michael Cantuar"-the traditional Latin abbreviation for Canterbury -but he sometimes autographs pictures "Michael, Archbishop of Canterbury...
This fall, although he has only three seniors among his 33 oarsmen, Love has retained the stern five from last year's first boat: Douglas Robertson, Spencer Burden, Nick Bancroft, Harry Pollock and Mike Dennis. Love also hopes for some "competitive spirit" from the 22 sophomores on the new squad. Coxswains include two sophomores, William Claflin and John Unkovic, and Junior Edward Washburn...
...Governor Barnett was scheduled to appear before the Court of Appeals in New Orleans to answer to charges of contempt. As was expected, he stayed in Mississippi. The court tried him in absentia, found him guilty, gave him four days to "purge himself" of the contempt, and set a stern penalty if he failed to comply: $10,000-a-day fine, and confinement in the custody of the U.S. Attorney General...
...healthy lead and increased it with every mark of the 24-mile, windward-leeward course. The game Aussie skipper hounded Mosbacher like a hound after a fox (cracked one spectator: "Sturrock ought to know how to spell Weatherly by now; he's seen the name on her stern enough"), but at the finish a wide 3 min. 40 sec. and half a mile of open water separated the defender from the challenger...
...Stern First. When the new, $36,000,000 Arendal yard of the Götaverken Ship Building Co. goes into production near Göteborg next spring, it will be the world's most fully automated shipyard, capable of building colossal, 140,000-ton ships on the industry's first real assembly line. It throws out the old method of building ships on stationary ways from the keel up. Instead, ships will emerge from a giant assembly shed stern first in 45-ft. sections; as they move down the ways, everything from deckplates to cabin carpets will...