Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is in protest against our Government's permitting the Soviets to occupy a residence in Glen Cove tax free and turning it against our national interests," declared Mayor Alan Parente. The Soviets immediately protested to American officials, and the State Department delivered a stern reprimand: "This is an action that interferes in the conduct of foreign affairs, a function within the exclusive competence of the Federal Government...
...Chub Feeney ordered Turner to desist for the good of baseball. Turner watched the next game, a victory, from the stands, but a couple of days later he was in uniform again. He took batting practice, and was about to try his hand at strategy once more when a stern telegram arrived from Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. When Turner phoned Kuhn, the exasperated commissioner uttered the single memorable sentence of a career devoted to prudent locution...
...Ronald Reagan. The President last week pressed hard for it and another favorite idea, his New Federalism program; he journeyed to Baltimore to plug that plan at a gathering of county officials and found himself hugging a gag gift of a stuffed "presidential seal." But his mood was stern in the White House Rose Garden, where he told reporters after a meeting with amendment supporters: "We must not, and we will not, permit prospects for lasting economic recovery to be buried beneath an endless tide of red ink." Reagan this week plans to announce the formation of committees in each...
...friend Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt says that Reagan has shown a messianic zeal on the subject since the attempt on his life in March 1981. At the same time, aides note, the President has never wavered in his suspicion of Soviet intentions, nor in his belief that only a stern policy and a rapid American military buildup can induce the U.S.S.R. to negotiate seriously on arms control. As he put it to the U.N., "We refuse to become weaker while potential adversaries remain committed to their imperialist adventures." Having emphasized one aspect of his policy in Europe, Reagan evidently thought...
...Edinburgh, John Paul held two discussions with the Rt. Rev. John Mclntyre, the titular head (Moderator) of the Church of Scotland-the first time that a Pope had met Scotland's leading Protestant on Scottish soil. The meeting occurred in the shadow of the stern gaze of a statue of 16th century Calvinist Reformer John Knox, who once said, "The venom and malice of Satan reigneth in all Papists." Mclntyre seemed unintimidated by the setting: "If you are concerned at all for the unity of the church in Scotland, where we have a very bad record," he said...