Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This stern injunction was enunciated by the Prophet Muhammad some 1,300 years ago to his followers in a primitive desert society. Now, after centuries of being superseded by Western law, the exacting code of the Koran is once more gaining strength and support in a number of countries...
Ross could not be at hand to witness Watson's stirring victory but he would have been proud at what a stern test Turnberry provided for all but the winner and Nicklaus. Saturday's round was certainly one of the greatest head to head battles ever to take place in a ritish Open. J.H. Taylor, who won the Open five times at the turn of the century, once said that the best way to win the championship was to win easily. Watson's win was by no means easy, but after his triumph over Nicklaus in head to head battle...
...90th birthday last week. For the occasion, his friend and fellow Russian, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, helped to organize a gala concert in Nice, not far from Chagall's hillside home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Among the other performers who played or sang in his honor: Violinist Isaac Stern, Baritone Hermann Prey and Flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal. Chagall attended the concert as well as a nearby exhibition of his biblical paintings of the past decade. Said he: "To work with love in his heart is a painter's mission, to make the world better." Besides his artwork Chagall...
Married. Jack Hearn Watson Jr., 38, assistant to President Carter for intergovernmental affairs; and Teena Stern Mohr, fortyish, a dancer; both for the second time; in Atlanta...
...native-born Israeli and former member of L.H.I. (the Stern group), I can tell you the true story. The two British soldiers were kidnaped and held as hostages for two Irgun members captured by the British and sentenced to death. The British authorities had been warned that if the execution took place, the two British sergeants would be hanged in retaliation. It was, of course, "undignified" for the British Empire to give in, so the two freedom fighters were hanged. As a consequence, the two Britons were also hanged. They were never tortured...