Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then he fenced the whole from stem to stern with willow withes to be a defence against the wave, and strewed much brush thereon...
...Coffee. Busy, bird-like Mother Seton was a woman both stern and sentimental. As a girl, she was wildly eclectic in her spiritual life, combining deep faith in the Episcopal Church with love for such scandalous deists as Voltaire and Rousseau. Tough when she had to be. Mother Seton fought priestly superiors who crossed her path, alternately teased and bullyragged her two sons. When one of her nuns failed to receive Communion because she had broken her fast with a cup of coffee. Mother Seton showed little sympathy. "Ah, my dear," she said, "how could you sell your...
...inflation, depression and a $365 million budget deficit, has been forced to raise cigarette and gasoline taxes and promise to raise fares on its debt-ridden national railways to qualify for a $50 million IMF loan. Inflation-racked Indonesia wants $30 million, and the IMF will probably demand a stern austerity program and a slowdown in military spending.* Seeking $100 million, nearly bankrupt Brazil has pledged to cut its rate of inflation in half this year-from 60% to 30%. But that is not enough for the IMF; though most economists consider it an impossibility, the IMF is insisting that...
...last he reaches Paris. And what does he find in Paris? Germans. He has escaped from a little prison into a big one. The whole world, Renoir seems to be saying, is a kind of prison, and the only freedom a man really has he has inside himself. Stern words, but Renoir says them with an old man's smile...
...reluctance that Marshall, alter some stern pressure from U.S. Secretary of the, Interior Stewart Udall, eventually overcame. The Redskins signed their first Negro player...