Word: sterne
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Andropov was, to Western experts, by far the most controversial of the contenders. Stern and serious behind his thick spectacles, he was the Ambassador to Budapest during the Soviet army's efficient repression of the Hungarian uprising in 1956. As head of the Committee for State Security (KGB) from 1967 to May 1982, he had also overseen the suppression of internal dissent. But at the same time, Andropov developed a reputation for pragmatism and sophistication, at least by Soviet standards...
CALIFORNIA. Tom Bradley's victory was to have been cause for national self-congratulation: the Los Angeles mayor would have become the country's first elected black Governor. But Democrat Bradley, 64, lost narrowly to the state's stern attorney general, Republican George Deukmejian, 54, who established a modest bench mark of his own: he is the first Governor of Armenian parentage...
...detained reporters--nearly nine months after the fact Kifner claimed the entire thing had been an "embarrassing" mistake that all parties involved regretted. He added that none of the correspondents had been in danger. Yet several major publications--including Time the French newspaper Le Figaro and the German magazine Stern--reported the threats to the journalists. And other correspondents in Lebanon who knew of the affair confirmed that the Americans had their lives threatened...
With two minutes remaining in the first stanza, freshman forward Lane Kenworthy crossed from just inside the penalty area to Ayrault making an identical run. The Harvard captain nodded the ball toward the left post, forcing Bruin keeper Hunter Stern to tip the shot over the crossbar on a diving save...
...Eleazar Wheelock in 1769 to provide an institution for the education of American Indians. To this day, American Indians pay no tuition to attend Dartmouth. Because of this tradition, the athletic teams were named the Dartmouth Indians and the college symbol (not its seal) was a rather stern-looking representation of an Indian with a small headdress. In 1974, after protests from Indians at Dartmouth. President Kemeny dropped the Indian symbol and changed the team name to "Dartmouth Big Green." The controversy, however, still continues about the college symbol, and the Review is able to exploit this financially, through...