Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Love will send to the sprints virtually the same boat that raced in the Adams Cup last week. Captain Perry Boyden will be stroking, with John Hodges at seven, Larry Timpson at six, and Spencer Borden at five to round out the stern four. In the bow half, Nick Bancroft will row at four, John Breckindidge at three, John Higginson at two, and Al Hager at bow. Jim Rosenstein...
...took over his father's underwear factory in 1910, has made it Japan's biggest rubber goods manufacturer by such aggressive and once radical tactics as pricing his products uniformly instead of by size, and wooing peasants from their traditional straw shoes to rubber-soled footwear. A stern boss who does not believe in delegating authority, he leaves only minor decisions to his executives, scorns the geisha entertainment parties favored by most Japanese businessmen...
...Hasty Pudding Club) I recently happened upon a volume called Verses from the Harvard Advocate, 1876. I regret the impossibility of reproducing this charming collection here for it is impossible to describe, in mere prose, the delightful abandon of The Other Young Man--A Class Day Romance or the stern moral of The Knobby Sophomore. There are witty tours de force, such as The Episode, (It was the plump conductor,/On the Friday-night last car,/Who told the tale I now rehearse,/When proffered a cigar.) For more substantial fare, the reader might prefer A Yarn, which contains such...
...troops of the 101st Airborne Division and the National Guard, he handled the Little Rock school crisis with such no-nonsense determination as to earn even the grudging admiration of segregationists. Since then, as commander of the 24th Infantry Division in West Germany, Walker has been known as a stern taskmaster who required officers and enlisted men alike to sweat through daily calisthenics and often take a one-mile run. But last week the Pentagon abruptly relieved General Walker, 51, of his command. The reason: charges that Walker was indoctrinating his troops with political propaganda that emanated from the conservative...
...Paris, a stern and outraged De Gaulle moved quickly to contain the insurrection. He dispatched his Minister for Algeria, Louis Joxe, to the big naval base at Mers-el-Kebir with "full powers" to deal with the mutineers, and sent with him a new commander in chief for Algeria. General Jean Olie. The French Cabinet met and declared a "state of urgency," giving police prefects everywhere almost unlimited powers of arrest...