Word: stern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Representatives' special "show-me" committee arrived last week in London. Seventeen Congressmen, plus ten consultants and two secretaries-all under the supervision of Massachusetts' stern and thoughtful Christian Herter-were there to see for themselves how badly off Europe was, and how much help England and the Continent needed...
Hardy Mrs. Craig had asked Navy permission to return to the U.S. with the presidential party and the male reporters aboard the battleship Missouri. The Navy, which has a stern rule against carrying women aboard warships-even grandmothers-because there are no toilet facilities for them, promptly passed the buck to the White House. But Mrs. Craig was well aware that the Navy had provided facilities for Mrs. Truman, Margaret and a maid in the austere privacy of the captain's island...
...group of leading U.S. psychiatrists, headed by Dr. William C. Menninger, has now issued a stern warning against "abuses" of electric shock therapy. The psychiatrists believe that shock treatments have become a fad and are being prescribed recklessly (and ineffectually) as a cure-all for too many different neuroses...
Lewis records "John's" journey in quest of the beautiful island he glimpsed mysteriously in the stern, unfriendly land of Puritania, where he was born. Puritania was strictly administered by Stewards who issued complex rules of behavior and clapped forbidding masks over their faces whenever they mentioned the Landlord. Searching for his island vision, John one day found "in the grass beside him ... a laughing brown girl of about his own age, and she had no clothes on. 'It was me you wanted,' said the brown girl. 'I am better than your silly Islands...
Into New York harbor one day last week steamed a chunky, single-funneled, single-masted liner with a cruiser stern. She was the British Cunard White Star Line's 13,700-ton ship Media, the first new liner to be built for the transatlantic service since the war. The British, although stalled in other industries, were losing no time getting their new merchant ships afloat...