Word: disciplinarian
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Flinty Judge Orion Thomas Gower, a strict disciplinarian, felt it was high time to hand down a lesson. He had lost his patience: it was ridiculous, he said, for the Government to ask housewives to save fats when thousands of tons of cottonseed oil and peanut oil were lost for lack of farm hands. He sentenced Weston to a year on a chain gang, fined him $1,000. The imprisonment was stayed on condition that Weston leave the State within 24 hours, stay out for at least 18 months...
Zhukov acquitted himself well, wearing down the Germans as he retreated until winter and reinforcements enabled him to counterattack and drive the enemy back. A poor mixer socially, Zhukov is about 46, bursting with energy, a strict disciplinarian and a firm believer in the importance of a high degree of troop mechanization backed by well-integrated communications, the latter a traditional Russian weakness...
Seeing no chance for advancement, Vetterli left the FBI in 1938. Sight unseen, Salt Lake City's Mayor Ab Jenkins appointed him police chief in 1940. A strict disciplinarian and stickler for rules, Vetterli is unpopular with his policemen, who, like many Western police forces, are fairly casual about discipline...
Hale Frank, 56, is Air Service Command chief, a highly vocal disciplinarian and the only West Pointer in the group besides his boss. "Tooey" Spaatz. "Tony" Frank is a belligerent partisan of air power. Officers left behind in Washington agreed "Tooey Spaatz, like every other officer, has spent 20-odd years picking the staff he would want for a time like this, and now he's got it. And those boys aren't over there for English...
Chiang the soldier says very little to his men. He listens to their reports, their suggestions or their fears. Then, with a single grunted word, hao (good) or pu (no), he makes his decision. He is a stern disciplinarian, and keeps his army taut. When he visits the fronts, he blurts words of praise or of withering criticism on the spot, in public hearing...