Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night's heroics were performed by a tiny sergeant of the Army's Strolling Strings. Without flinching, she fiddled a mere two feet from the ear of Violin Virtuoso Isaac Stern, who would play Beethoven later...
...incident that may have soured Parker's prospects was the handling of diaries purportedly written by Adolf Hitler. Last April Newsweek and other organizations bargained unsuccessfully for U.S. publication rights from the West German photo weekly Stern. Under Parker's supervision, Newsweek then ran an all but breathless cover story, synopsizing the memoirs, which included the memorable lines "Hitler's diaries-genuine or not, it almost doesn't matter in the end." After they had been exposed as forgeries, Newsweek ran a second cover suggesting that it had played a major role in uncovering the fraud...
...speeches: Carter was so vacillating and unpredictable that no one ever knew what he might do. Moscow at that point viewed Reagan as a standard Republican conservative whose more strident anti-Soviet proclamations were just campaign oratory. The Soviets recalled that Richard Nixon had won political prominence by talking stern antiCommunism, but in the White House turned into the prime American architect of U.S.-Soviet détente...
Says Marketing Professor Louis Stern of Northwestern University: "Sears had nothing, just bland stores that were unappealing and not exciting...
Commandeering a local television station's videotape equipment, Gill and Rozier wandered the sidelines conducting mock interviews until, suddenly, through the view finder Rozier saw a stern closeup of Osborne. Gill stuck out the microphone and demanded to know, "Why have you been running up the scores?" Before OsI borne could answer, Rozier announced, "Sorry, out of film," and they raced away laughing. To be blessed with three preeminent players at once-four, including Offensive Guard Dean Steinkuhler-is an amazement to Osborne. He has that one. player coaches forever dream about, only three or four times over...