Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complained on the floor of the House that over the past nine years the Administration budgetmakers have underestimated the red ink by a net total of $37.5 billion. "They were feasting on the delights of sweet anticipation," growled Cannon. "But now we are gnawing on the cold corncob of stern reality." For example, only a year ago Kennedy submitted a 1963 budget indicating a surplus of $500 million; that wishful bit of black ink has since changed into a massive blotch of red, currently estimated at $8.8 billion. With that in mind, Virginia Democrat Harry F. Byrd, chairman...
...Blow to Progress." Thus last week died the man who was ruler of a postage-stamp-sized republic (75 by 340 miles) on the sweltering West African coast. Chief architect of Togo's 1960 independence from French control, London-educated Olympio practiced stern austerity at home, rejected demagoguery, and sided openly with the West. President Kennedy, whom Olympio visited in Washington last March, mourned his death as "a blow to the progress of stable government in Africa...
Kimi was once a dress designer, but when she ventures to make suggestions about her husband's designs, Okada becomes jokingly stern. "When Kimi tries to help, she helps too much," says he, making his thumb and forefingers snap open and shut to suggest a yacketing mouth...
...outboard motor; in the 1961 show, 13 boats with inboard-outboard motors were exhibited, 38 were shown last year, and this year's show has 44. Inboard-outboards have the motor inside the hull (conferring more horsepower and greater prestige), while the propeller assembly is mounted outside the stern transom, permitting it to be raised in shallow water or for beaching and trailering to and from the yachtsman's water supply...
Festival of Performing Arts. Producers David Susskind and James Fleming put together a syndicated series that brought to television such performing masters as Violinist Isaac Stern, Cellist Pablo Casals, Actor Paul Scofield and his wife, Joy Parker, reading poetry, Margaret Leighton reading Dorothy Parker...