Word: sterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is to fall in love with is sexual racists." But most of the sexual segregationists have sterner reasons. Their chastity is not so much a Lysistrata tactic, it seems, as a self-disciplinary measure. "Love between a man and a woman is debilitating and counter-revolutionary," argues Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, daughter of David of the Chase Manhattan Bank and a member of Women's Liberation hard-core Cell 16 in Boston. Declares Boston's Roxanne...
Another question was posed: "What would you do if a son came home from the Army, bringing a supply of marijuana that he sold to his friends for $5,000 profit?" This hypothetical situation evoked a much sterner response: 73% would report him to the police, and only 14% would not. The answer of Leo Adams, a retired electrician of Rittman, Ohio, was representative: "If he smoked it himself, he's only hurting himself. This way he might give the habit to a lot of others-maybe even another...
...shooting was the result of a plot by the Soviet military chiefs to kill the civilian leaders and seize control. Another version is that the shooting was part of a KGB (secret police) plot to buttress the argument of Kremlin hawks that the country needs to be placed under sterner rule...
After the Yale Race, the Harvard Senior Varsity will choose four of its oarsmen to enter the four-with-cox class at the Olympic trials. Stiff competition can be expected from the so called Olympic Development Clinics located at M.I.T. in the East, and Seattle, Wash., in the West. Sterner challenges, however, will probably grow out of the losing eights, which will split up to try to take the four-with-cox berth...
...Kenyon, Harrison faced an even sterner challenge and brought if off. An editor of the Kenyon student newspaper said last night that when Harrison arrived there, "he had no material and only 50 or 100 people attended the games...