Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tales of the labor hoods unfolded under Bobby's stern questioning, he made loyal friends and mortal enemies. Many of the inner circle of the Kennedy team-O'Donnell, Salinger, Advance Man Walter Sheridan-are veteran staffers of the labor rackets committee and the most loyal supporters of Bobby Kennedy. But the reaction of his adversaries is foaming. Jimmy Hoffa turns purple at the mere mention of the Kennedy name. "Bobby Kennedy," he says, in a compassionate moment, "is a young, dimwitted, curly-headed smart aleck." Says an attorney who opposed him: "I might as well leave town...
...ornate office Argentine Foreign Minister Diogenes Taboada, a stern old diplomat of the striped-pants school, ran his eye over a copy of a television speech by Castro's Foreign Minister Raul Roa, and stiffened with horror. Argentina's President Frondizi, as Roa expressed it, was not only "a viscous concretion of all human excrescences"; he was also "the villain of a badly composed tango...
...thoroughly trounced-by Dick Nixon in the Senate and by Howard Smith in the House-all that remained of the original Kennedy-Johnson list of short-session "must" measures was the only genuine, non-politicking item in the lot: foreign-aid appropriations. At week's end, despite a stern warning from Ike that "a cut of this size will jeopardize the security of the country," both houses voted $3.7 billion for foreign aid-$560 million less than the President had asked for. (Afterward, the Senate Appropriations Committee recommended an additional appropriation to restore $190 million of the cut.) That...
...elected to Britain's Parliament. But all Scotsmen reserve the right to blame England for everything from Scotland's inordinate unemployment (3.1% in Scotland v. 1.4% for Britain as a whole) to its high rate of emigration (21,000 people last year) and occasional lapses from the stern Scottish morality. "Our illegitimacy rate," they enjoy pointing out, "is highest in those parts of the country that border England...
...Johnson had come to believe that "the duty of the artist is to strain against existing style." Goethe's stern commandment-"the pilaster is a lie"-was no longer a sufficient rallying cry as it had been for Mies's generation, and the man who had done so much in the cause of the International Style now began to rebel against it. "I became bored with glass boxes. Of course, I love my own house, but I no longer find it interesting to draw straight lines." Johnson began to look for inspiration anywhere-the ancient Greeks, the baroque...