Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard boat, with Paul Gunderson, Geoff Picard, Harry Pollack, and Bill Weber, represented the U.S. in the four without cox competition at the 1964 Olympic games in Tokyo. In today's four with cox race, Arthur Watson will be in the stern...
Tightening the Grip. As the impact of the elections sank in, the military mutterings grew so loud that President Castello Branco was forced into a move that would only make his government even more unpopular. In return for not interfering with the results, the stern linha dura (hard line) officers won the promise that Castello Branco would send new proposals to Congress tightening the revolution's hold on the country through military courts and police. Most important, the military wants to change next year's presidential elections from direct balloting by the people to indirect balloting by Congress...
Peking's stern ultimatum to India, which once sounded like the voice of certain war, was resolved in a squeaky backdown. Peking announced that the Indians had dismantled 56 outposts on Chinese territory, thus precluding the possibility of a three-cornered war. But Peking kept up the threat of future trouble by demanding the immediate return of "two kidnaped Tibetans, 800 sheep and 59 yaks." India, of course, denied everything from dismantling to yaknaping. And in New Delhi, a mob promptly marched on the Chinese Embassy, leading a herd of sheep bearing placards that read: "Eat me, but save...
...ours was the prophesy, theirs was the message come true. For us now to turn our backs on their achievement, to dilute our applause with sanctimonious reprimands, to become a stern father to our own abused child would be to cry sour grapes at the success of our ends, but the failure of our means...
...same air of stern determination spread through Rawalpindi. Civil servants worked round the clock, and on the desks of key officials lay a blue volume of contingency papers labeled "War Book." Auto headlights were dimmed with smears of mud and cow dung, and trucks were camouflaged with leafy branches. For three successive nights, Indian bombers struck at Karachi's harbor installations, and the wail of air-raid sirens blended with the sobbing call to prayer of muezzins atop minarets. A bitter Pakistani official said, "Let's fight it out and get it over with. Either we become slaves of India...