Word: stern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Akillian, Bernard, Cabot, Charles Codman, Jr., Carduff, Wendell Lee, Connolly, John Michael, Cook, Theodore Levl, Jr., Donelan, John Joseph, Jr. (Captain), Goodman, William 3d, Groton, Calvert Cottrell, Harris, Nathantel Lothrop, Jr., Bickey, William Moran, Howland, Neil, Morrison, Gordon Mackey, Jr., Robinson, Ralph Lindsay Flanders, Simonds, Jonsthan Otis, Stern, Roger Waldstein, Switzer, Alan Alexander, Jr., Thompson, Robert Burlis, Walsh, Charles Sario, Jr., Webb, John Crawford, Jr., Wise, Timothy John Willard. Young, Henry Arthur, Chapin, Aldus Riggins (Manager...
...juniors were made to stand on their feet. The pace was swift, the competition was stern. Says a friend who has known McCloy ever since those days: "Jack learned not to depend on others. It is surprising how many men in Washington have never learned how to handle anything themselves, and depend on other people to shape up the work. The one thing McCloy has never had to do is to depend on somebody else to do his draft ing; he can do it better himself and he knows...
...fear to hear our Lord's stern words: 'Woe unto you, Episcopalians, hypocrites...
...mihi animas [give me souls]," was the prayer of bearded, stern-faced St. Francis Xavier, greatest missionary of the Roman Catholic Church since Apostolic times. One of the first Jesuits, who helped St. Ignatius Loyola found the order, Francis Xavier journeyed to India .and then to the Far East in his historic quest for converts. On Aug. 15, 1549, the astonished farmers and fishermen of Japan first saw his black-clad figure. For more than two years thereafter, Francis Xavier moved tirelessly among the Japanese, of whom he wrote: "These people are the delight of my soul." He made hundreds...
...characters have evaded and the responsibilities they have shirked. A girl is haunted by the ghost of her mother's neglected lover; a playwright dreams of a creature who, unlike the actress in the role, knows how to play his heroine; a scruple-torn pacifist meets the stern spirit of his strong-willed military ancestor; a young man abandons his girl friend to consort with the ghost of a woman he has never met; two old maids gain a sense of vicarious lawlessness from the ghost of an ancestor who was a smuggler; a woman abandons her fiance...