Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they had protested each major Nationalist infringement on freedom in the past seven years, the Black Sash members-largely women of English stock whose husbands oppose the government-once again vowed to stand stern symbolic watch until Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's government forced the sabotage bill through to the inevitable successful vote. In the autumn chill, Black Sash Chairman Jean Sinclair, a 54-year-old Johannesburg housewife, and her handful of matronly recruits were swathed in overcoats as they lit their symbolic torch of freedom and posted placards reading "Reject the Sabotage Bill." Promptly, young pro-Nationalist hooligans...
Over cocktails with French Ambassador Herve Alphand a few weeks earlier, the adroit name-dropper dropped into Al-phand's pocket a list of U.S. cultural leaders (among them: Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern) who had never been accorded the Legion d'Honneur. As White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. later told Lyons: "You were to have been invited, but the French ambassador suddenly brought in a long guest list-and it left no room for you." At Horizon House, a five-room cottage for the disabled at New York University's Institute of Physical Medicine...
...icebox and other unnecessary appurtenances have been ripped out, her stern has been chopped off, and like Easterner, she is going to get a new keel...
...Malvolio, Thom Babe exhibits control far beyond refusing "cakes and ale." Dour and stern at the start, he convinces us that he has heard no bells at midnight; and so, when he breaks into smiles and puts on yellow stockings, the joke succeeds superbly...
...phone company is presently bending over backward to be nice in such in stances, but the DDD honeymoon may not last forever. In the not-too-distant time when any idly spun combination of seven numbers will ring somebody, some where, stern household telephone discipline will be needed, or Daddy's phone bills may be in seven figures...