Word: sterne
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...Selayar, and the crew prepared to cast off. The passengers watched rapt as the five-man crew pulled lines taut and the two green and white striped sails caught the wind and filled with a snap. Some guests pitched in to help, others baited hooks and fished off the stern. A few hours later we arrived at a pristine beach surrounded by coral heads at the southern tip of the island. Divers readied their gear and plunged directly overboard while snorkelers and shell gatherers headed to the beach in a dinghy. Later that afternoon, a small fishing boat pulled alongside...
...There are a couple of portraits of very stern Puritans who are staring at me…in order to make sure one does not get too carried away,” Kirby said...
...France - surely the oldest and richest, the most varied and distinct movie tradition outside the U.S. He said yes, he might, and no, not France. He was thinking of Britain. Why? Because he saw lots of English movies when he was a kid, and that child, apparently, is a stern father to the man. Don't expect that one to be panoramic either. Scorsese isn't interested in the Ealing comedies; he's likely to concentrate on the early Hitchcock melodramas, on "The Blue Lagoon" and other British films aired on 50s network TV and on the flourishing, festering genius...
...terrorists are different. They have no political agenda and owe their allegiance not to any institutions or geographical expressions on earth but to a higher authority in heaven. The classic examples of the first are the armed wings of national liberation movements, like the Irish Republican Army, Israel's Stern Gang and Umkhonto We Sizwe, the military arm of the African National Congress. It is quite possible to support the aims of such groups while deploring their means. The classic example of the second category, of course, is Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda, for in conventional terms bin Laden...
CAPTAINS Kenan Stern and Sarah Luskin (Alpine), Katherine Damon and Julia Silvis (Nordic...