Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Futile Protest. Even Kremlin propagandists did not make that nonsensical claim. Instead, the Russians clamped a tight censorship on the embarrassing affair, for two days did not print or broadcast one word about the riot all Moscow was talking about. Finally, Izvestia issued a stern warning to the students, told them to "respect Soviet laws" or get out of the country...
Under discussion were plans for a major new offensive against the Viet Cong. Before boarding his plane for home, McNamara turned to Vietnamese Defense Minister Major General Tran Van Don with some stern words of advice. "Now," said McNamara, "let's be real tough...
...Banker Semenenko apparently disagreed with such prophecies. The company was making a sturdy effort to recover on its own; new management and editorial teams had swept in to change the face and direction of all five magazines. Culligan, a former advertising man, not only hustled new accounts but ordered stern cuts in Curtis' overhead. He chopped 2,300 names off the payroll, at an annual saving of $10.3 million. Curtis' papermaking subsidiary, New York and Pennsylvania Co., which had been charging the company $214 a ton, found ways to cut the price...
Permanent Resident. Directed by Stuart Vaughan, 38, who ran Manhattan's old Phoenix rep company for five seasons and earlier spent four as artistic director of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, the Seattle company opened with a stern and deliberate production of Lear, followed a night later by a bizarre and romping turn with Max Frisch's The Firebugs. The standard of selection, according to Vaughan, is "classics and could-be classics." The remainder of the season will see productions of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Christopher Fry's The Lady...
...most dramatic test of the new navigator last week, a sailor-sized, life-jacketed dummy nicknamed "Oscar" was pitched off the stern. At the shout "Man overboard!", the lieutenant in the hold marked the chart and began barking commands. When the red line had curved back on itself, there was Oscar, 10 yds. to port, in more danger of being run down than drowned...