Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lately, Cuba's bearded leader seems to be delivering nothing but stern exhortations. Two weeks ago, he wrote to Régis Debray, the French intellectual who was captured shortly before Bolivian soldiers killed Che Guevara in 1967 and was recently released from prison. "We are working hard and facing great difficulties," Castro confessed. "The march is truly long, Debray, because it is when power has been taken that we revolutionaries understand that we are barely starting...
...brothers. Thus, for many of us, there was the combined problem of actively competing to belong to the team which in its turn signaled authentic membership in community and family traditions. The emotional and physical exertion of this role assumption made football more often a matter of stern social duty rather than a pleasurable sport...
...prove wrong, but it represents a significant feeling that Nixon must overcome. He seems determined to try. "The White House has discovered Congress," observes one presidential aide, "and it is going to be romanced to death." The attempt is crucial, considering the taut and complex political climate and the stern demands that Nixon is making upon the new Congress. At the moment, serious obstacles loom for most of the major proposals Nixon is trying to push through the showdown session. They include...
...thing with track is that when you stay at a Holiday Inn that's fifty miles outside the city. the only thing around is the bar, and McCurdy and Stowell are usually in there," Dan Pagnano revealed. "So, anybody who comes in notices McCurdy's stern little face and just turns around and runs right back up to his room. This helps us to control them a little." Pagnano said...
...century A.D. repeatedly defied their conquerors with covert gestures of opposition and open acts of rebellion. The Roman response was usually swift and cruel. Perhaps because he participated in one of these uprisings or committed some other grievous offense in the eyes of Jerusalem's stern rulers, a young Judean named Yehohanan (a Hebrew form of John) was sentenced to death. Like thousands of other Jews-including Jesus of Nazareth -who were also condemned by the Roman procurators during those turbulent years, Yehohanan died slowly and painfully on the cross...