Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barred was Nina Ponoma-reva, the hefty discus thrower who was caught shoplifting in London two years ago. A sort of Maria Callas in a track suit, Nina had made her outbursts of temperament famous. She was accused of being "egotistical and uncomradely." All this was part of a stern new government campaign to eradicate a disease called "The Stardom Sickness...
...three nations most plainly in need of the kind of help the new bank can offer are Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile. But Bolivia's President Hernan Siles Zuazo has been backing a stern anti-inflation program with everything from hunger strikes to threats to resign, and there are hopeful signs of recovery. Paraguay's President Alfredo Stroessner, reinaugurated last week, has stabilized the currency, balanced the budget and held the rise in cost of living to a low (for Paraguay) 1% per month. And Chile's President Carlos Ibanez has sacrificed his personal popularity to back tough...
...witness in the packed, TV-floodlighted Senate Caucus Room trembled with fright as he told his story to stern-faced Senator John McClellan and the labor-management rackets investigating committee. What brawny ex-Lumberman George Francis Heid, 35, was afraid of was not the power of the U.S. Government, as represented by the McClellan committee. It was the power of the Teamster Brotherhood, the U.S.'s biggest labor union (membership 1,500,000). Heid knew that testifying against Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa and his henchmen might bring ugly reprisals by Hoffa's ex-convict bullyboys. But with...
...Missing Word. Speaking like a stern parent. De Gaulle refused to budge. Events of the last twelve years, during which the whims of the Assembly had toppled 25 governments, proved, said he, that Articles 14 and 21 are "indispensable." Then De Gaulle moved on to a subject the committee was anxious to hear more about-the question of the territories overseas, including the vast areas of French West Africa (see next page), French Equatorial Africa and Madagascar. For these, De Gaulle offered three choices: 1) status quo,as semi-autonomous territories; 2) integration as departments of France; or 3) some...
...chunky champ, Shot Putter Galina Zybina. For Nina, disgrace was nothing new: visiting London for a track meet in 1956, she raised hackles and eyebrows by walking out of a shop with five filched hats under her arm. later coughed up $8.82 in court costs to get free of stern British...