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Word: sternly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, reported Rome's Il Messaggero, Italy's 3,000,000 Communists got a stern memorandum from headquarters outlining a "proper code of bad manners" to be observed toward visiting Americans. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: How To Be Rude | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...remnants are 130 convicted Nazi war criminals. They are the surviving handful of men the British once vowed to punish. That British passion is now spent; in its place is a German passion to set the criminals free. Last week Henri Nannen, editor of a Hamburg picture weekly, Der Stern, shockingly dramatized the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Prisoners of Werl | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

With great relish he broke a story that two war criminals had escaped from Werl. Luftwaffe Pilot Hans Kühn had murdered three Allied flyers who parachuted down in 1943; Private Wilhelm Kappe had killed a Russian prisoner of war. According to Der Stern, the two escaped while working outside the jail walls, and were given a ride by a passing motorist who gladly picked them up though he could not help but recognize their war-criminal insignia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Prisoners of Werl | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...Chinese from becoming citizens. Thus disfranchised, the mass of Chinese in Malaya have little patriotic interest in the country's future, and most of them tacitly support the guerrillas (almost all Chinese) whom a large British army has been doggedly fighting for three years. No matter what stern measures the British take, the guerrillas seem always to find a haven among their countrymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: 1,200,000 New Citizens | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...made his only son, Bob Jr., president in 1941, crusty Bob Ingalls Sr.* continued his one-man rule, never let his son make much of a mark for himself. In 1948 Bob Jr. divorced his wife and married Jane Sevier Smith, a widow with two children. His father, a stern Presbyterian who did not believe in divorce, fired him from his $45,000-a-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Family Feud | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

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