Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist Party and Beijing government had on Wednesday issued stern warnings that the student protests, now in their 11th day, are illegal and that further street demonstrations would be crushed...
Harvard is heavily favored, fielding one of its strongest crews in the last few years. Rowing for the Crimson, from bow-to-stern, are Captain and bow Joe Harvey, senior Curt Piecken-haugen, junior Peter Sharis, sophomore Hugh Evans, junior Jon Bernstein, senior Jack Rusher, senior Phil Schuller, stroke and senior John Amory and sophomore Metz...
...middle 1000 the lights were four seats ahead of UBC and took a power 10 (strokes), gaining three seats and a bow-to-stern margin...
...incidentally, those founders -- David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann -- detested the Stern Gang that was implicated in terrorist bombings and assassinations. Shamir was one of its most notorious members. If Israel refuses to budge on the West Bank, it could, over time, become just another Levantine war zone pretending to be a country, in which latter-day equivalents of the Stern Gang battle with the most extremist of the Palestinians...
...decade or so ago, The Woman Warrior and China Men. Tan's book is a wry group portrait of four elderly and feisty women who emigrated from China to the U.S., and their grown, very Americanized daughters. "A girl is like a young tree," says one of the stern mothers, who explains to her daughter that she lacks the necessary wood in her character. "You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you . . . But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak." The daughter does not ignore this old- country...