Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inch with all the hearty handshaking. He clapped men on the back: "How are you, buddy?" He reduced the women to squeals of delight with his rugged good looks. He was able and eager to dance an Irish jig when the occasion demanded. He spoke of the issues in stern, confident tones. He campaigned unabashedly on the claim that his influence would be felt in Washington on his brother's New Frontier. His slogan: "He can do more for Massachusetts...
...Mosbacher's lead had been reduced to two boat lengths, a bare 12 sec. By the second eight-mile mark, it was still only 14 sec. Then Gretel and Sturrock stole the day. His spinnaker ballooning firm and white, Sturrock caught a great, wind-driven wave under his stern and rode it like a surfboarder on a Pacific comber. As the Australians surged past, Mosbacher's Yanks heard a roaring war whoop booming out across the water. Weatherly tried to recover, but she snapped her spinnaker pole -and then it was too late. Gretel was home free...
Gretel then took advantage of an old Australian custom and, catching the following seas on her broad stern, surf-boarded home to a :47 victory and the fastest 24 mile race ever sailed by the swift Twelve meter sloops...
Painter Stuart, who always stubbornly insisted on putting to canvas exactly what he saw, also left behind a stern point of view that can serve journalists as well as painters. To a proud husband who complained that Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the artist replied: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach...
...treetops, all the way to the mangrove swamps lining Florida's Gulf coast. Local citizens were fighting, if not on the beaches, at least in the streets and their own backyards, cleaning out every container in which mosquitoes could find enough water to breed. Bird lovers got a stern official warning: stop feeding the birds or putting out water for them...