Word: stern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stimson did not see how any man could have done otherwise "and afterwards looked his countrymen in the face." Did his apologia have "a harsh and unfeeling sound?" He reflected: "As I look back over the five years of my service as Secretary of War I see too many stern and heart-rending decisions to be willing to pretend that war is anything else than what it is. The face of war is the face of death. . . . This deliberate premeditated destruction was our least abhorrent choice...
Miss Day, who is 26, Mormon-bred, and does not smoke or drink, had an appropriate answer for that one. "Judge, why do you crucify me?" she asked. "Don't you want me to be happy?" The judge looked stern. "We did it on the spur of the moment," seconded 39-year-old Leo, hopefully. But Judge Dockweiler, apparently, had never seen the Dodgers play...
...United Church presbytery meeting in Toronto last week, a committee made a stern report: the city once known far & wide as "Toronto the Good" has become pretty wicked. Said the committee: "Toronto is obsessed with the slippery condition of its streets when it should be concerned with the sliding moral values of its people...
...performance of French Dissonantist Arthur Honegger's Third (Liturgique) Symphony. It clanked through a violent first movement, settled into a lyric, prayer-like second movement and after an explosive climax in the third concluded with a wispy, ethereal melody. Said Conductor Munch: "It is horizontal music, rather stern and unsentimental, and as such, an expression of our times...
This report, a stern rebuke to the medical profession, was delivered last week by a committee of the New York Academy of Medicine. The survey covered only New York City. But other cities are apt to be worse; most dump alcoholics in jail...