Word: disciplinarian
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...supreme commander of Ian Smith's tough but makeshift security force is Rhodesian-born, Sandhurst-trained Peter Walls, 51, a dour disciplinarian but popular with his troops. Walls' baptism of fire took place after World War II in Malaya, where he learned counterinsurgency techniques. Walls has publicly stated that there can be no military victory over the guerrillas without a political settlement that provides the country's blacks with tangible economic gains. He has also declared that he and his army are ready to "serve under any Rhodesian government"-presumably including one headed by blacks. Meanwhile, though...
Haskins cited this example to illustrate his contention that the modern principal should attempt to encourage teachers to unite to dicuss methods of dealing with students rather than acting as the ultimate disciplinarian in the school...
...They went back together to the U.S. in the fall of 1948. Rauschenberg had read a TIME article about the pioneer abstractionist Josef Albers, the veteran of the Bauhaus who was teaching at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Albers was held in awe as a theorist and a disciplinarian: an inspired Junker. Discipline was what Rauschenberg felt he needed...
Inhibiting the Law. Eanes tried to soften his image during the campaign by doffing his trademark dark glasses and even kissing an occasional baby, but at his first press conference as President-elect, he lived up to his reputation as a ramrod disciplinarian. Stressing Portugal's need for "a homogeneous, cohesive and operational government," he warned that "insurrectional activities will no longer be tolerated, no matter which direction they come from." Referring to worker and peasant takeovers of factories and farms in southern Portugal, he accused the instigators of "intimidating the population and inhibiting...
...Eanes becomes President, it will be less because the voters like him than because they fear the alternatives. A stern, aloof, ramrod-stiff disciplinarian, Eanes served in all three of Portugal's former African territories, joined the 1973 so-called "captains' revolt" against Lisbon's effort to contain the black struggle for independence, and actively supported Spinola at the time of the April revolution. Eanes is credited with lancing the rebellion last November that nearly led to a leftist dictatorship...