Word: disciplinarianism
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...certainly curt: "Stop, you're talking nonsense." Recently subjected to an interview by a Washington pundit who seemed more anxious to make speeches than to ask questions, LeMay interrupted: "If you know all the damned answers, then what are you doing here?" LeMay is as hard-boiled a disciplinarian as exists in the high command of the U.S. armed forces. But he is renowned for backing his men when they make understandable mistakes-so long as the same mistake is never made twice. Off duty, he carries long-range, single-side-band ham radio gear on trips, collects guns...
...went into hiding, but Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko had the courage to mount a chair outside Parliament and quiet the rioters. He led a delegation of three sweaty soldiers to Prime Minister Lumumba. Their demands: 1) removal of the Belgian commander in chief, Lieut. General Emil Janssens, a strict disciplinarian, 2) replacement of all other Belgian officers and noncoms by Congolese, 3) general raises in pay and rank. Lumumba hastily agreed. In the most sweeping army promotion in history, he advanced every Congolese soldier by one grade, making the Force Publique the only army in the world without a single...
...grey-faced figure whose voice and countenance were far better known to the ruling circles of Communism than to the paraders below. His name: Liu Shao-chi. His rank: Chairman of the Chinese People's Republic. His potent role: the No. 2 man of Red China, and steely disciplinarian of the party...
Hard-eyed and tightlipped, New York City's Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy last week presided over an unusual ceremony. Kennedy, an up-from-the-beat disciplinarian who runs New York's 23,600-man force with an iron hand (TIME, July 7), promoted eight cops ranging from rookie patrolman to lieutenant. Curiously, all eight were raised for the same reason: they had put the finger on other cops during a month of sordid police scandals that rocked the world's largest city...
...course these differences, in Harvard practice, are no differences; more often than not one's tutor is outside one's House, and the role of disciplinarian generally ends with the proctor...