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Stern, n.5|stɜːn|
The name of Avraham Stern (1907–42), used attrib. in Stern gang or Stern group to designate a militant Zionist organization (officially Loḥame Ḥerut Yisra'el Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) founded by him in 1940.
1944Nation 2 Dec. 685/1 The so-called Stern gang, with 150 active members. 1947, etc. [see Irgun]. 1959I. Jefferies Thirteen Days iv. 51 One of the two terrorist groups was called the Stern Gang. 1963D. Leitch in Sissons & French Age of Austerity iii. 64 The Stern Gang was responsible for the murder of Lord Moyne, Minister resident in Cairo, in November 1944. 1978L. Heren Growing up on The Times iii. 86 The Stern Gang was a savage organisation which even Koestler could not defend despite his theory that ruthlessness was essential for human progress.
Hence ˈSternist a. and n.
1944Nation 2 Dec. 685/2 Nathan Friedman-Yellin, the thirty-one-year-old Sternist chief. Ibid. 686/1 The Sternists' chief weapon is murder. 1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment i. viii. 92 The Sternists were believers in unrestricted and indiscriminate terror. Ibid. ii. v. 279 Then a Sternist girl came in who once made international news. 1978L. Heren Growing up on The Times iii. 83 Goldschmidt..assumed that the Sternist philosophy, which was never made clear to me, would prevail. |