Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...island laboratory for Marxist revolution, Fidel Castro's Cuba is the place where stern Communist discipline meets Fidel Castro's quixotic Latin temperament. To assess the experiment, TIME'S Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, traveling on his Canadian passport, first visited Havana 17 months ago. Last week he returned from a second two-week trip to Cuba. A summary of his report...
...turned into a constructive force. Gross hopes now to revamp New York's school system drastically, using such sharp tools as team teaching, programmed learning, a crash program for slow readers. To give teachers a genuine feeling of "getting results," Gross may well reshape administration from stem to stern. Calmly taking the measure of his task, he says: "I don't think the school system can be administered effectively in its present state...
Adlai Stevenson had not been so angry in the U.N. since last year's Cuban crisis. "This reprehensible act of murder," he said before the Security Council, "deserves the strongest condemnation. Outrages of this kind cannot pass without the stern disapproval of the international community...
...hook, it is even harder to keep it there. An angry white marlin can swim at 60 m.p.h. In its strong, tenacious struggle to throw the hook, it often thrusts out of the water 20 times or more in "tailwalking" jumps and long "greyhounding" leaps, sometimes lunges at the stern of a boat with enough force to impale a careless fisherman on its bill...
...film, Hud's father, a man of stern, old-fashioned morals, says bitterly, "Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire." And increasingly, the men we admire are like...